Habakkuk 3

1A prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet, set to victorious music.Cross-references: Ps 7:1 · Ps 86:1 · Ps 90:1

2Yahweh, 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.Cross-references: Ex 9:20 · Ex 32:10 · Num 14:10 · Num 16:46 · 2Sam 24:10 · 2Chr 34:27 · +33 more

3God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.Cross-references: Gen 21:21 · Gen 36:11 · Ex 19:16 · Ex 20:18 · Ex 24:15 · Num 10:12 · +20 more

4His splendor is like the sunrise. Rays shine from his hand, where his power is hidden.Cross-references: Ex 13:21 · Ex 14:20 · Neh 9:12 · Job 26:14 · Ps 104:2 · Prov 18:10 · +5 more

5Plague went before him, and pestilence followed his feet.Cross-references: Ex 12:29 · Num 14:12 · Num 16:46 · Deut 32:24 · Ps 18:7 · Ps 78:50 · +1 more

6He 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.Cross-references: Gen 49:26 · Ex 15:17 · Ex 21:31 · Num 34:1 · Deut 32:8 · Deut 33:15 · +20 more

7I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction. The dwellings of the land of Midian trembled.Cross-references: Gen 10:6 · Gen 25:1 · Ex 15:14 · Num 22:3 · Num 31:2 · Josh 2:10 · +3 more

8Was 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?Cross-references: Ex 7:20 · Ex 14:21 · Deut 33:26 · Josh 3:16 · Ps 18:10 · Ps 45:4 · +14 more

9You uncovered your bow. You called for your sworn arrows. Selah. You split the earth with rivers.Cross-references: Gen 15:18 · Gen 17:7 · Gen 22:16 · Gen 26:3 · Gen 28:13 · Ex 17:6 · +14 more

10The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.Cross-references: Ex 14:22 · Ex 19:16 · Josh 3:15 · Josh 4:18 · Josh 4:23 · Judg 5:4 · +27 more

11The sun and moon stood still in the sky at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.Cross-references: Josh 10:11 · Ps 18:12 · Ps 19:4 · Ps 77:17 · Ps 144:5 · Isa 28:21 · +1 more

12You marched through the land in wrath. You threshed the nations in anger.Cross-references: Num 21:23 · Josh 6:1 · Neh 9:22 · Ps 44:1 · Ps 78:55 · Isa 41:15 · +4 more

13You 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.Cross-references: Ex 12:29 · Ex 14:13 · Ex 15:1 · Josh 10:11 · Josh 10:24 · Josh 10:42 · +15 more

14You 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.Cross-references: Ex 1:10 · Ex 1:22 · Ex 11:4 · Ex 12:12 · Ex 12:29 · Ex 14:5 · +12 more

15You trampled the sea with your horses, churning mighty waters.Cross-references: Ex 15:8 · Ps 77:19 · Hab 3:8

16I 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.Cross-references: Deut 28:49 · 2Ki 24:1 · Ps 91:15 · Ps 94:12 · Ps 119:120 · Isa 26:20 · +11 more

17For 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,Cross-references: Deut 28:15 · Deut 28:30 · Jer 5:17 · Jer 14:2 · Joel 1:10 · Joel 1:16 · +2 more

18yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!Cross-references: Ex 15:2 · Deut 12:18 · 1Sam 2:1 · Job 13:15 · Ps 25:5 · Ps 27:1 · +20 more

19Yahweh, 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.Cross-references: Deut 32:13 · Deut 33:29 · 2Sam 22:34 · Ps 4:1 · Ps 6:1 · Ps 18:1 · +14 more