Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
A table - a tablet (Habakkuk 2:2), which should set in public, containing the prophecy in a briefer form, to be read by all.
A book - namely, a parchment roll, containing the prophecy in full, for the use of distant posterity. Its truth will be seen hereafter when the event has come to pass. See Isaiah 8:1; Isaiah 8:16, notes.
For ever and ever. The Chaldaic, Vulgate, and Syriac read х laa`eed (H5707) for laa`ad], 'For a testimony forever:' 'testimony' is often joined to the notion of perpetuity (Deuteronomy 31:19; Deuteronomy 31:21; Deuteronomy 31:26). But the Septuagint and Arabic read as the Hebrew text, which should not be rashly changed.