Habakkuk 2:14 → Isaiah 11:9

Both Isaiah 11:9 and Habakkuk 2:14 use the image of waters covering the sea to describe universal knowledge of God, but with a revealing variation. Isaiah writes "the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD" (דֵּעָה אֶת־יְהוָה, de'ah et-YHWH), while Habakkuk intensifies this to "the knowledge of the glory of the LORD" (כְּבוֹד יְהוָה, kevod YHWH). Habakkuk likely draws directly on Isaiah's formulation, adding the glory motif to connect the universal knowledge promise to God's visible, manifest presence. Both prophets set this filling of the earth in contrast to the violence and idolatry that currently fill it, envisioning a reversal where divine knowledge displaces human wickedness.