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href="../habakkuk/2.htm" title="Habakkuk 2">◄</a> Habakkuk 3 <a href="../zephaniah/1.htm" title="Zephaniah 1">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/habakkuk/3.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Habakkuk’s Prayer</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth.</p> <span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, I have heard the report of you,</span><br /><span class="indent">and your work, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, do I fear.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">In the midst of the years revive it;</span><br /><span class="indent">in the midst of the years make it known;</span><br /><span class="indent">in wrath remember mercy.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">God came from Teman,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the Holy One from Mount Paran. <selah>Selah</selah></span><br /><span class="ln-group">His splendor covered the heavens,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the earth was full of his praise.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">His brightness was like the light;</span><br /><span class="indent">rays flashed from his hand;</span><br /><span class="indent">and there he veiled his power.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Before him went pestilence,</span><br /><span class="indent">and plague followed at his heels.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew feet">a</a></sup></span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He stood and measured the earth;</span><br /><span class="indent">he looked and shook the nations;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">then the eternal mountains were scattered;</span><br /><span class="indent">the everlasting hills sank low.</span><br /><span class="indent">His were the everlasting ways.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction;</span><br /><span class="indent">the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Was your wrath against the rivers, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>?</span><br /><span class="indent">Was your anger against the rivers,</span><br /><span class="indent">or your indignation against the sea,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">when you rode on your horses,</span><br /><span class="indent">on your chariot of salvation?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You stripped the sheath from your bow,</span><br /><span class="indent">calling for many arrows.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of the Hebrew line is uncertain">b</a></sup></span> <selah>Selah</selah></span><br /><span class="indent">You split the earth with rivers.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The mountains saw you and writhed;</span><br /><span class="indent">the raging waters swept on;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">the deep gave forth its voice;</span><br /><span class="indent">it lifted its hands on high.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The sun and moon stood still in their place</span><br /><span class="indent">at the light of your arrows as they sped,</span><br /><span class="indent">at the flash of your glittering spear.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You marched through the earth in fury;</span><br /><span class="indent">you threshed the nations in anger.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You went out for the salvation of your people,</span><br /><span class="indent">for the salvation of your anointed.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">You crushed the head of the house of the wicked,</span><br /><span class="indent">laying him bare from thigh to neck.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of the Hebrew line is uncertain">c</a></sup></span> <selah>Selah</selah></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You pierced with his own arrows the heads of his warriors,</span><br /><span class="indent">who came like a whirlwind to scatter me,</span><br /><span class="indent">rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You trampled the sea with your horses,</span><br /><span class="indent">the surging of mighty waters.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I hear, and my body trembles;</span><br /><span class="indent">my lips quiver at the sound;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">rottenness enters into my bones;</span><br /><span class="indent">my legs tremble beneath me.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Yet I will quietly wait for the day of trouble</span><br /><span class="indent">to come upon people who invade us.</span></p> <p class="heading">Habakkuk Rejoices in the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span></p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Though the fig tree should not blossom,</span><br /><span class="indent">nor fruit be on the vines,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">the produce of the olive fail</span><br /><span class="indent">and the fields yield no food,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">the flock be cut off from the fold</span><br /><span class="indent">and there be no herd in the stalls,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">yet I will rejoice in the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="indent">I will take joy in the God of my salvation.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group"><span class="divine-name">God</span>, the Lord, is my strength;</span><br /><span class="indent">he makes my feet like the deer’s;</span><br /><span class="indent">he makes me tread on my high places.</span></p><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">To the choirmaster: with stringed<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew my stringed">d</a></sup></span> instruments.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span 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