Habakkuk 3

1 This is a prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth:

2 O LORD, I have heard the report of You; I stand in awe, O LORD, of Your deeds. Revive them in these years; make them known in these years. In Your wrath, remember mercy!

3 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His glory covered the heavens, and His praise filled the earth.

4 His radiance was like the sunlight; rays flashed from His hand, where His power is hidden.

5 Plague went before Him, and fever followed in His steps.

6 He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.

7 I saw the tents of Cushan in distress; the curtains of Midian were trembling.

8 Were You angry at the rivers, O LORD? Was Your wrath against the streams? Did You rage against the sea when You rode on Your horses, on Your chariots of salvation?

9 You brandished Your bow; You called for many arrows. Selah You split the earth with rivers.

10 The mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high.

11 Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.

12 You marched across the earth with fury; You threshed the nations in wrath.

13 You went forth for the salvation of Your people, to save Your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of the wicked and stripped him from head to toe. Selah

14 With his own spear You pierced his head, when his warriors stormed out to scatter us, gloating as though ready to secretly devour the weak.

15 You trampled the sea with Your horses, churning the great waters.

16 I heard and trembled within; my lips quivered at the sound. Decay entered my bones; I trembled where I stood. Yet I must wait patiently for the day of distress to come upon the people who invade us.

17 Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,

18 yet I will exult in the LORD; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!

19 GOD the Lord is my strength; He makes my feet like those of a deer; He makes me walk upon the heights! For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments.

1 ¶ A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.

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 ¶ 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.

4 And [his] brightness was as the light; he had horns [coming] out of his hand: and there [was] the hiding of his power.

5 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.

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.

7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: [and] the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.

8 Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? [was] thine anger against the rivers? [was] thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses [and] thy chariots of salvation?

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.

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.

11 The sun [and] moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, [and] at the shining of thy glittering spear.

12 Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.

13 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, [even] for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.

14 Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing [was] as to devour the poor secretly.

15 Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, [through] the heap of great waters.

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 unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.

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 meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and [there shall be] no herd in the stalls:

18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

19 The LORD God [is] my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' [feet], and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.

2 O Lord, I have heard thy rumour, and am astonished. O Lord, thou makest thy work alive in the midst of the years, and makest it known in the midst of the years. When tribulation cometh, thou rememberest mercy.

3 God came from the midday, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Sela. The heavens were full of His praise, and the earth was full of His glory.

4 His brightness was as light; shinings were from his hands; there was his power secretly.

5 Before him went pestilence, and plague went out whithersoever he went.

6 He stood and measured the land, and looked, and divided the nations: and the mountains of the world were broken in pieces, and the hills of the world stooped down, when he walked in the world.

7 I saw the tents of the Moors in trouble, and the tents of the Midianites in distress.

8 Were not thou wroth, O LORD, in the flood, and thy wrath in the waters, and thy anger in the sea, when thou rodeest upon thy horses, and thy chariots prevailed?

9 Thou hast drawn forth the bow, as thou swarest unto the tribes, Shelah, and hast divided the rivers into the land.

10 The mountains saw thee, and they were afraid: the river went down, the deep was heard, the high places lifted up their hands.

11 The sun and the moon stood still. Thine arrows passed with shining, and thy spears with glances of lightning.

12 Thou hast trodden down the land in wrath, and thou hast crushed the heathen in fury.

13 Thou wentest forth to help thy people, to help thine anointed. Thou didst bruise the head of the house of the wicked; Thou didst uncover the foundation unto the neck. Sela.

14 Thou wouldest curse the sceptre of the head, and the spots thereof, which come as the weather to scatter me, and rejoice as they devour the wretched in hiding.

15 your horses walk in the sea, in the mud of great water.

16 When I hear these things, my belly is troubled, my lips tremble with the cry; pus cometh into my bones; I am troubled with myself. O that I might rest in the time of trouble, When we go up to the people that dispute with us!

17 For the fig tree shall not flourish, neither shall there be any increase in the vines; the work of the olive tree shall fail, and the fields shall yield no food; and the sheep shall be plucked out of the folds, and there shall be no oxen in the stalls.

18 But I will rejoice in the LORD, and be glad in GOD my salvation.

19 For the LORD GOD is my strength, and shall make my feet as the feet of a deer, and shall lead me on high to sing with my strings.