3:1 | A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth. |
3:2 | O LORD, I have heard thy speech, [and] was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy. |
3:3 | God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. |
3:4 | And [his] brightness was as the light; he had horns [coming] out of his hand: and there [was] the hiding of his power. |
3:5 | Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. |
3:6 | He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways [are] everlasting. |
3:7 | I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: [and] the curtains of the land of Midian trembled. |
3:8 | Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? [was] thy anger against the rivers? [was] thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thy horses [and] thy chariots of salvation? |
3:9 | Thy bow was made quite naked, [according] to the oaths of the tribes, [even thy] word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers. |
3:10 | The mountains saw thee, [and] they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, [and] lifted up his hands on high. |
3:11 | The sun [and] moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thy arrows they went, [and] at the shining of thy glittering spear. |
3:12 | Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger. |
3:13 | Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, [even] for salvation with thy anointed; thou didst wound the head out of the house of the wicked, by laying bare the foundation to the neck. Selah. |
3:14 | Thou didst strike through with his staffs the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing [was] as to devour the poor secretly. |
3:15 | Thou didst walk through the sea with thy horses, [through] the mire of great waters. |
3:16 | When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up to the people, he will invade them with his troops. |
3:17 | Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither [shall] fruit [be] in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no food; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and [there shall be] no herd in the stalls: |
3:18 | Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation. |
3:19 | The LORD God [is] my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' [feet], and he will make me to walk upon my high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments. |