Habakkuk 2:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

yet. deferred.

appointed: i.e. fixed by Jehovah for its fulfillment.

and not lie. Figure of speech Pleonasm (App-6), for emphasis.

it will not tarry. Some codices, with five early printed editions (one Rabbinic, margin), Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and will not tarry".

Habakkuk 2:3

3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.