Habakkuk 2:15

"For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the LORD’s glory, as the waters cover the sea."

Key Reflection

This verse suggests that just as water eventually covers the sea, so too will the entire world come to understand and experience the glory of God's presence and power. It implies a future where divine knowledge is universally accessible and deeply ingrained in human consciousness.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

From cruelty the prophet goes on to denounce the woe on insolence. “Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor” (to whom he owes love) drink (literally, that maketh him drink); that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also , that thou mayest look (gaze with devilish pleasure) on their nakedness.” This may either be of actual insults (as in the history of Noah), in keeping certainly with the character of the later Babylonians, the last wantonness of unbridled power, making vile sport of those like himself (his neighbor), or it may be drunkenness through miseryIsaiah 29:9wherein they are bared of all their glory and brought to the lowest shame.

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