Habakkuk 2:14
New International Version
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover 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.

English Standard Version
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD 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.

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

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.

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.

NASB 1995
“For the earth will be filled With the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, As the waters cover the sea.

NASB 1977
“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 filled With the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh, As the waters cover the sea.

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.

Christian Standard Bible
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the LORD’s glory, as the water covers the sea.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the LORD’s glory, 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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because the Earth shall be filled to know the glory of LORD JEHOVAH as the waters that cover the sea

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord; it shall cover them as water.

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

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
But the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the LORD's glory like the water covers 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.

International Standard Version
Indeed, the earth will be filled with knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as water fills the sea."

JPS Tanakh 1917
For the earth shall be filled With the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, As the waters cover the sea.

Literal Standard Version
For the earth is full of the knowledge of the glory of YHWH, | As the waters cover over a sea.

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

New American Bible
But the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the LORD’s glory, just as the water covers the sea.

NET Bible
For recognition of the LORD's sovereign majesty will fill the earth just as the waters fill up the sea.

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

New Heart English Bible
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, 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.

World English Bible
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Yahweh’s glory, 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.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Woe to the Chaldeans
13Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain? 14For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea. 15Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!…

Cross References
Numbers 14:21
"Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD,

Psalm 22:27
All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.

Isaiah 11:9
They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the sea is full of water.

Isaiah 40:5
And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all humanity together will see it. For the mouth of the LORD has spoken."

Jeremiah 31:34
No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more."

Ezekiel 47:5
Once again he measured off a thousand cubits, but now it was a river that I could not cross, because the water had risen and was deep enough for swimming--a river that could not be crossed on foot.

Micah 2:9
You drive the women of My people from their pleasant homes. You take away My blessing from their children forever.


Treasury of Scripture

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

the earth.

Psalm 22:27
All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

Psalm 67:1,2
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm or Song. God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah…

Psalm 72:19
And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.

with the knowledge of the glory.

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Habakkuk 2
1. Unto Habakkuk, waiting for an answer, is shown that he must wait by faith.
5. The judgment upon the Chaldean for unsatiableness,
9. for covetousness,
12. for cruelty,
15. for drunkenness,
18. and for idolatry.














(14) With the knowledge.--Better, as concerns the knowledge. See the same promise in Isaiah 11:9. It is here introduced in contrast to the short-lived glory of Babylon. The enslaved nations raised the Babylonian palaces only for the fire to destroy them. But Jehovah's glory shall be made known all the world over, and shall not be effaced.

Verse 14. - The prophet now gives the reason of the vanity of these human undertakings. For the earth shall be filled, etc. The words are from Isaiah 11:9, with some little alterations (comp. Numbers 14:21). This is cue of the passages which attests "the community of testimony," as it is called, among the prophets. To take a few out of many cases that offer, Isaiah 2:2-4 compared with Micah 4:1-4; Isaiah 13:19-22 with Jeremiah 50:39, etc.; Isaiah 52:7 with Nahum 1:15; Jeremiah 49:7-22 with Obadiah 1:1-4; Amos 9:13 with Joel 3:18 (Ladd, 'Doctrine of Scripture,' 1:145). All the earth is to be filled with, and to recognize, the glory of God as manifested in the overthrow of ungodliness; and therefore Babylon, and the world power of which she is a type, must be subdued and perish. This announcement looks forward to the establishment of Messiah's kingdom, which "shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and shall stand forever" (Daniel 2:44). We must remember how intimately in the minds of Eastern heathens the prosperity of a nation was connected with its local deities. Nothing in their eyes could show more perfectly the impotence of a god than his failing to protect his worshippers from destruction (comp. 2 Kings 18:33, etc.). The glory of Jehovah and his sovereignty over the earth would be seen and acknowledged in the overthrow of Babylon, the powerful, victorious nation. As the waters cover the sea. As the waters fill the basin of the sea (Genesis 1:22; 1 Kings 7:23, where the great vessel of ablution is called "the sea").

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּ֚י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

the earth
הָאָ֔רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

will be filled
תִּמָּלֵ֣א (tim·mā·lê)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 4390: To fill, be full of

with the knowledge
לָדַ֖עַת (lā·ḏa·‘aṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 3045: To know

of
אֶת־ (’eṯ-)
Direct object marker
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

the glory
כְּב֣וֹד (kə·ḇō·wḏ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3519: Weight, splendor, copiousness

of the LORD
יְהוָ֑ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

as the waters
כַּמַּ֖יִם (kam·ma·yim)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

cover
יְכַסּ֥וּ (yə·ḵas·sū)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 3680: To plump, fill up hollows, to cover

the sea.
יָֽם׃ (yām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3220: A sea, the Mediterranean Sea, large river, an artifical basin


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