Habakkuk 3

Habakkuk’s Confidence in Adonai

1A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, as a passionate song.

2Adonai, I have heard the report about You and I have come to fear. Adonai, revive Your work throughout the years, throughout the years make it known, In wrath remember compassion.

3God comes from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His majesty covers the heavens, and His praise fills the earth.

4With brilliance like light, rays emanate from His hand. There His power was hidden.

5Pestilence goes before Him, a fiery bolt goes forth at His feet.

6He stood, and the earth shook. He looked, and startled nations. Ancient mountains were shattered, hills of antiquity sank down. His ways are everlasting.

7I saw tents of Cushan under calamity. The curtains of the land of Midian are trembling.

8Adonai, is your wrath against rivers? Or Your anger at the rivers? Or is Your fury with the sea? For You ride on Your horses, Your chariots of salvation!

9Your bow is laid bare. Sworn are rods—a decree. Selah You cleave the land with rivers.

10The mountains saw You and writhe. A downpour of water overflows. The deep gives its voice— it lifts up hands high.

11Sun and moon, stand in lofty abode. At the flash of Your arrows they go, at the radiance of the lightning of Your spear.

12With indignation You pace the land. With anger You thresh nations.

13You went out for the salvation of Your people—for the deliverance of Your anointed one. You shatter the head of the house of the wicked—to lay it bare from foundation up to the top. Selah

14You have pierced his chief rulers with his own staff— They stormed in to scatter me. Their exultation is like devouring the weak in secret.

15You marched forth, Your horses in the sea— much water foaming.

16I heard, and my belly trembled. My lips quivered at the sound. Decay comes into my bones. I tremble where I stand, since I must wait quietly for a day of distress to come up against the people who will invade us.

17Though the fig tree does not blossom, and there is no yield on the vines, Though the olive crop fail, and the fields produce no food, the flock is cut off from the fold, and there is no cattle in the stalls.

18Yet will I triumph in Adonai, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!

19Adonai my Lord, is my strength. He has made my feet like a deer’s, and will make me walk on my high places. For the choir director: On my stringed instruments.

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Habakkuk 3

Habakkuk gives praise to the Lord

Habakkuk's prayer

1This is my prayer:#3.1 prayer: The Hebrew text adds “according to the shigionoth”, which may mean a prayer of request or a prayer to be accompanied by a special musical instrument.

2I know your reputation, LORD,

and I am amazed

at what you have done.

Please turn from your anger

and be merciful;

do for us what you did

for our ancestors.

3You are the same Holy God

who came from Teman

and Paran#3.3 Teman…Paran: Teman is a district in Edom, but the name is sometimes used of the whole country of Edom; Paran is the hill country along the western border of the Gulf of Aqaba. In Judges 5.4, the LORD is said to have marched from Edom to help his people; in Deuteronomy 33.2, Paran is mentioned in connection with the LORD's appearance at Sinai. to help us.

The brightness of your glory

covered the heavens,

and your praises were heard

everywhere on earth.

4Your glory shone like the sun,

and light flashed from your hands,

hiding your mighty power.

5Dreadful diseases and plagues

marched in front

and followed behind.

6When you stopped,

the earth shook;

when you stared,

nations trembled;

when you walked

along your ancient paths,

eternal mountains and hills

crumbled and collapsed.

7The tents of desert tribes

in Cushan and Midian#3.7 Cushan and Midian: Tribes of the Arabian desert who were enemies of Israel.

were ripped apart.

8Our LORD, were you angry

with the monsters

of the deep?#3.8 monsters of the deep: The Hebrew text has “rivers and oceans”, which may stand for the powerful monsters that were thought to have lived there before the LORD defeated them.

You attacked in your chariot

and wiped them out.

9Your arrows were ready

and obeyed your commands.#3.9 obeyed your commands: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

You split the earth apart

with rivers and streams;

10mountains trembled

at the sight of you;

rain poured from the clouds;

ocean waves roared and rose.

11The sun and moon stood still,

while your arrows and spears

flashed like lightning.

12In your furious anger,

you trampled on nations

13to rescue your people

and save your chosen one.#3.13 chosen one: Or “chosen ones”.

You crushed a nation's ruler

and stripped his evil kingdom

of its power.#3.13 You crushed…power: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

14His troops had come like a storm,

hoping to scatter us

and glad to gobble us up.

To them we were refugees

in hiding—

but you smashed their heads

with their own weapons.#3.14 but you…weapons: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

15Then your chariots churned

the waters of the sea.

Habakkuk's response to God's message

16When I heard this message,#3.16 heard this message: Or “saw this vision”.

I felt weak from fear,

and my lips quivered.

My bones seemed to melt,

and I stumbled around.

But I will patiently wait.

Some day those vicious enemies

will be struck by disaster.#3.16 I will…disaster: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

Trust in a time of trouble

17Fig trees may no longer bloom,

or vineyards produce grapes;

olive trees may be fruitless,

and harvest time a failure;

sheep pens may be empty,

and cattle stalls vacant—

18but I will still celebrate

because the LORD God

saves me.

19The LORD gives me strength.#2 S 22.34; Ps 18.33.

He makes my feet as sure

as those of a deer,

and he helps me stand

on the mountains.#3.19 stand on the mountains: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

To the music director:

Use stringed instruments.

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