Habakkuk 3:1WEB
A prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet, set to victorious music.
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Habakkuk 3:1WEB
A prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet, set to victorious music.
Habakkuk 3:2WEB
Yahweh, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, Yahweh. Renew your work in the middle of the years. In the middle of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Habakkuk 3:3WEB
God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.
Habakkuk 3:4WEB
His splendor is like the sunrise. Rays shine from his hand, where his power is hidden.
Habakkuk 3:5WEB
Plague went before him, and pestilence followed his feet.
Habakkuk 3:6WEB
He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal.
Habakkuk 3:7WEB
I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction. The dwellings of the land of Midian trembled.
Habakkuk 3:8WEB
Was Yahweh displeased with the rivers? Was your anger against the rivers, or your wrath against the sea, that you rode on your horses, on your chariots of salvation?
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Habakkuk 3:9WEB
You uncovered your bow. You called for your sworn arrows. Selah. You split the earth with rivers.
Habakkuk 3:10WEB
The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.
Habakkuk 3:11WEB
The sun and moon stood still in the sky at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.
Habakkuk 3:12WEB
You marched through the land in wrath. You threshed the nations in anger.
Habakkuk 3:13WEB
You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the land of wickedness. You stripped them head to foot. Selah.
Habakkuk 3:14WEB
You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.
Habakkuk 3:15WEB
You trampled the sea with your horses, churning mighty waters.
Habakkuk 3:16WEB
I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.
Habakkuk 3:17WEB
For even though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines, the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food, the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls,
Habakkuk 3:18WEB
yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Habakkuk 3:19WEB
Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.