Habakkuk 2:14

New King James Version

For the earth will be filled With the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, As the waters cover the sea.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For the earth will be filledwith the knowledge of the Lord’s glory,as the water covers the sea.

Hebrew Names Version
For the eretz will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

King James Version (1611)
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters couer the Sea.

King James Version
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord , as the waters cover the sea.

English Standard Version
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.

New American Standard Bible
"For the earth will be filled With the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, As the waters cover the sea.

New Century Version
Then, just as water covers the sea, people everywhere will know the Lord 's glory.

Amplified Bible
"But [the time is coming when] the earth shall be filled With the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, As the waters cover the sea.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lorde, as the waters couer the sea.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For the earth will be filled With the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, As the waters cover the sea.

Legacy Standard Bible
For the earth will be filledWith the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh,As the waters cover the sea.

Berean Standard Bible
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.

Contemporary English Version
Just as water fills the sea, the land will be filled with people who know and honor the Lord .

Complete Jewish Bible
For the earth will be as full of the knowledge of Adonai 's glory as water covering the sea.

Darby Translation
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Jehovah as the waters cover the sea.

Easy-to-Read Version
Then people everywhere will know about the Glory of the Lord . This news will spread just as water spreads out into the sea.

George Lamsa Translation
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

Good News Translation
But the earth will be as full of the knowledge of the Lord 's glory as the seas are full of water.

Lexham English Bible
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh, like the waters covering the sea.

Literal Translation
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea.

American Standard Version
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea.

Bible in Basic English
For the earth will be full of the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the sea is covered by the waters.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the earth shalbe filled with the knowledge of the glorie of the Lorde, as the waters couer the sea.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord; it shall cover them as water.

English Revised Version
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

World English Bible
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For the erthe schal be fillid, that it knowe the glorie of the Lord, as watris hilynge the see.

Update Bible Version
For the earth shall be filled with knowledge of the glory of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.

Webster's Bible Translation
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

New English Translation
For recognition of the Lord 's sovereign majesty will fill the earth just as the waters fill up the sea.

New Living Translation
For as the waters fill the sea, the earth will be filled with an awareness of the glory of the Lord .

New Life Bible
For the earth will be filled with knowing of the Lord's shining-greatness, as the waters cover the sea.

New Revised Standard
But the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord , as the waters cover the sea.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh, - as, the waters, cover the sea.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the earth shall be filled, that men may know the glory of the Lord, as waters covering the sea.

Revised Standard Version
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

Young's Literal Translation
For full is the earth of the knowledge of the honour of Jehovah, As waters cover [the bottom of] a sea.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For the earth shalbe full of knowlege of the LORDES honoure, like as the waters that couer the see.

Contextual Overview

⁵ "Indeed, because he transgresses by wine,He is a proud man,And he does not stay at home.Because he enlarges his desire as hell, [fn] And he is like death, and cannot be satisfied,He gathers to himself all nationsAnd heaps up for himself all peoples. ⁶ "Will not all these take up a proverb against him,And a taunting riddle against him, and say,'Woe to him who increasesWhat is not his--how long?And to him who loads himself with many pledges'? [fn] ⁷ Will not your creditors [fn] rise up suddenly?Will they not awaken who oppress you?And you will become their booty. ⁸ Because you have plundered many nations, All the remnant of the people shall plunder you, Because of men's blood And the violence of the land and the city, And of all who dwell in it. ⁹ "Woe to him who covets evil gain for his house, That he may set his nest on high, That he may be delivered from the power of disaster! ¹⁰ You give shameful counsel to your house, Cutting off many peoples, And sin against your soul. ¹¹ For the stone will cry out from the wall, And the beam from the timbers will answer it. ¹² "Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed, Who establishes a city by iniquity! ¹³ Behold, is it not of the Lord of hostsThat the peoples labor to feed the fire, [fn] And nations weary themselves in vain? ¹⁴ For the earth will be filled With the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, As the waters cover the sea.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the earth: Psalms 22:27, Psalms 67:1, Psalms 67:2, Psalms 72:19, Psalms 86:9, Psalms 98:1-3, Isaiah 6:3, Isaiah 11:9, Zechariah 14:8, Zechariah 14:9, Revelation 11:15, Revelation 15:4

with the knowledge of the glory: or, by knowing the glory

Reciprocal: Numbers 14:21 - all the Psalms 57:5 - thy glory Psalms 97:6 - all the Psalms 113:3 - General Psalms 145:6 - And men Isaiah 12:5 - this is known Isaiah 19:21 - Lord shall Isaiah 35:2 - they shall Isaiah 40:5 - the glory Jeremiah 31:34 - for they Ezekiel 43:2 - the earth Ezekiel 47:5 - waters to swim in Micah 2:9 - my glory Zephaniah 3:9 - that Matthew 6:9 - Hallowed Luke 11:2 - Hallowed Galatians 4:9 - ye have Colossians 1:10 - increasing 1 Timothy 2:4 - the knowledge Hebrews 8:11 - for all

Cross-References

Genesis 10:11
From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,

Genesis 10:22
The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.

Genesis 15:18
On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying: "To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates--

Genesis 25:18
(They dwelt from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt as you go toward Assyria.) He died in the presence of all his brethren.

Deuteronomy 1:7
Turn and take your journey, and go to the mountains of the Amorites, to all the neighboring places in the plain, [fn] in the mountains and in the lowland, in the South and on the seacoast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates.

Deuteronomy 11:24
Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the River Euphrates, even to the Western Sea, [fn] shall be your territory.

Daniel 10:4
Now on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, that is, the Tigris, [fn]

Revelation 9:14
saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord,.... Of the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ; of the glory of his person, as the Son of God, and truly God; which is essential to him, and underived; the same with his Father's, and what transcends the glory of all created beings; and of the glory of his office as Mediator, which itself is glorious and honourable: and this his glory lies in his fitness for it; in his faithful performance of it, and the honour given him by his Father upon it; as well as in the fulness of grace in him, which makes him appear glorious to his people; and who are continually giving glory to him as the Lord their righteousness, by exercising faith on his righteousness, and glorying in it; and as their only Saviour and Redeemer, by looking to him, and believing in him as such; and as the only Head of the church, by owning and holding to him; and as the only Mediator between God and man, by making use of him for that purpose, and not angels and saints; and as their Prophet, by hearkening to his voice, yielding a subjection to his Gospel, and submission to his ordinances; and as their Priest, by dealing with his blood and sacrifice for the atonement and pardon of their sins; and as their King, by obedience to his commands; and who will now take to himself his great power, and reign gloriously before his saints; the glory of his kingly office will be now seen and known, when this prophecy shall have its full accomplishment, and which seems greatly intended. The "knowledge" of all this glory will not be a mere notional and speculative one, but special and spiritual; an experimental knowledge, accompanied with affection, approbation, confidence, and appropriation: and "the earth will be filled with" this; that is, the inhabitants of it: this had an accomplishment in part in the times of the apostles, when they were sent into all the world to preach the Gospel to every creature, and diffused the savour of the knowledge of Christ everywhere; and had a further accomplishment in the times of Constantine, when the whole Roman empire, or all the world, became Christians; and again at the time of the Reformation, when many nations, especially in Europe, were freed from Popish darkness by the pure light of the Gospel; but will have its final accomplishment in the latter day; and which will bring on the destruction of antichrist, and seems here intended; since this is given as a reason why it will be all labour in vain to attempt the prevention of it. It will be by means of the Gospel spreading the knowledge of Christ everywhere that antichrist will fall; this is the brightness of Christ's coming, with which he will be destroyed; hence the angel, with the everlasting Gospel to preach to all nations, and with whose glory the whole earth will be lightened, is represented as preceding the fall of Babylon, and as the means of it; see 2 Thessalonians 2:8 and the great spread and large abundance of this knowledge communicated by the preaching of the Gospel is thus illustrated and exemplified,

as the waters cover the sea; expressing the nature of Gospel doctrines, revealing the glory of Christ and his grace, which, like waters, refresh and make fruitful; and the force and power of them, bearing down all before them, like an inundation of water when it breaks its banks; and likewise the depths of them, these being the deep things of God; and more especially the general spread and large abundance of them, and of the knowledge conveyed by them; which will fill the earth, as the waters of the sea fill up and cover the vast chasm prepared for them; see

Isaiah 11:9.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord - Habakkuk modifies in a degree the words of Isaiah which he embodies, marking that the destruction of Babylon was a stage only toward the coming of those good things which God taught His people to long for, not their very coming. All the world should be then full of the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, not, as yet, wholly of Himself Jerome: “When Babylon shall be overthrown, then shall the power of the might of the Lord be known unto all. So shall the whole earth be filled with the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the bottom of the sea. This as to the letter. But it is plain, that the Devil also and antichrist, and the perverse teaching of heretics, built a city in blood; i. e, their own Church, with the destruction of those whom they deceive ... But when they fail in the fire (either this fire which is felt, or consumed in the fire of the devil their prince, or burned up with the fire whereof the Lord says, ‘I came to send a fire upon the earth,’ and so brought back from their former course, and doing penitence), the whole earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord, when, at the preaching of the apostles, their ‘sound shall go out into all the world,’ as waters covering the sea, i. e., all the saltness and bitterness of the world which Satan had rained down and the earth had drunk, the waters of the Lord shall cover, and cause the place of their ancient bitterness not to appear.”

Rup.: “‘For the Spirit of the Lord filled the earth,’ and when He filled it, ‘the earth was filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord,’ so that unlearned and ignorant men became wise and eloquent, and earthly became heavenly, yea, they who were earth became heaven, knowing the glory of the Lord, declaring the glory of God, not any how, but as waters cover the sea. Great as must be waters, which would cover the sea, or compared to which the sea were nothing, far greater is the miracle, when the abundance of heavenly wisdom, given to the simple, surpassed the sea, i. e., the wisdom of all mankind.” This verse being already a received image of the spread of the gospel Isaiah 11:9, it would of itself be understood to include this also; but more generally, it declares how upon all the judgments of God, a larger knowledge of Him would follow Cyril: “All things are full of Christ, who is the Glory of the Father; wherefore also He said John 17:4, I have glorified Thee on earth, I have finished the work which Thou gavest me to do.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Habakkuk 2:14. For the earth shall be filled — This is a singular and important verse. It may be first applied to Babylon. God's power and providence shall be widely displayed in the destruction of this city and empire, in the humiliation of Nebuchadnezzar, Daniel 4:37, and in the captivity and restoration of his people. See Newcome, and see Isaiah 11:9.

Secondly. It may be applied to the glorious days of the Messiah. The land of Judea should by his preaching, and that of his disciples, be filled with the knowledge of God. God's great design fully discovered, and the scheme of salvation amply explained.

Thirdly. It may be applied to the universal spread of the Gospel over the habitable globe; when the fulness of the Gentiles should be brought in, and the Jews gathered in with that fulness. The earth cannot perish till every continent, island, and inhabitant, is illuminated with the light of the Gospel.