Habakkuk · 19 verses
Habakkuk 3
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The deep roars and lifts its hands while the mountains quake, the sun and moon stand still, and God rides through the waters on horses of salvation.
A prayer before the spectaclevv. 1–2
Habakkuk’s prayer arrives with a musical mystery attached: it is offered “according to Shigionoth,” a phrase the chapter does not explain. He has heard the report of God and stands in awe, asking that the deeds be revived and made known again—“In Your wrath, remember mercy!”
The earth shudders at the march of Godvv. 3–15
God comes from Teman and the Holy One from Mount Paran, with glory covering the heavens and praise filling the earth. Plague goes before Him, fever follows, mountains crumble, and nations startle. The deep, having apparently acquired both a voice and hands, roars and lifts them high; the sun and moon stop in their places as arrows flash. God marches in fury, threshes nations, saves His people, and rides through the great waters on horses.
Trembling, then songvv. 16–19
Habakkuk hears the vision and trembles so thoroughly that decay enters his bones. He waits for the day of distress, even while the fig tree, vines, olive crop, fields, sheep, and cattle all fail. Yet the prayer ends in exultation: God is his strength, gives him deer-like feet, and makes him walk upon the heights. After all that cosmic warfare, the final instruction is wonderfully practical: “For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments.”
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Hab 3:1This is a prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth:
Hab 3:2O 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!
Hab 3:3God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His glory covered the heavens, and His praise filled the earth.
Hab 3:4His radiance was like the sunlight; rays flashed from His hand, where His power is hidden.
Hab 3:5Plague went before Him, and fever followed in His steps.
Hab 3:6He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.
Hab 3:7I saw the tents of Cushan in distress; the curtains of Midian were trembling.
Hab 3:8Were 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?
Hab 3:9You brandished Your bow; You called for many arrows. Selah You split the earth with rivers.
Hab 3:10The mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high.
Hab 3:11Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.
Hab 3:12You marched across the earth with fury; You threshed the nations in wrath.
Hab 3:13You 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
Hab 3:14With his own spear You pierced his head, when his warriors stormed out to scatter us, gloating as though ready to secretly devour the weak.
Hab 3:15You trampled the sea with Your horses, churning the great waters.
Hab 3:16I 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.
Hab 3:17Though 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,
Hab 3:18yet I will exult in the LORD; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!
Hab 3:19GOD 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.
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- 192 Samuel 22:34He makes my feet like those of a deer and stations me upon the heights.
- 19Psalms 18:33He makes my feet like those of a deer and stations me upon the heights.
- 18Job 13:15Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.
- 19Philippians 4:13I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.
- 2Psalms 85:6Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You?
- 18Micah 7:7But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
- 18Philippians 4:4Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!
- 19Psalms 46:1For the choirmaster. Of the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A song. God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in times of trouble.
- 18Isaiah 61:10I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom wears a priestly headdress, as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
- 2Psalms 90:13–17Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.
- 19Deuteronomy 32:13He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him the produce of the field. He nourished him with honey from the rock and oil from the flinty crag,
- 18Romans 5:2–3through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
- 18Psalms 25:5Guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; all day long I wait for You.
- 2Hosea 6:2–3After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.
- 19Isaiah 58:14then you will delight yourself in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the land and feed you with the heritage of your father Jacob.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
- 192 Corinthians 12:9–10But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.
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