NRSV Habakkuk 3 Chapter
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3:1
A prayer of the prophet Habakkuk according to Shigionoth.
3:2
O LORD, I have heard of your renown, and I stand in awe, O LORD, of your work. In our own time revive it; in our own time make it known; in wrath may you remember mercy.
3:3
God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran.Selah His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.
3:4
The brightness was like the sun; rays came forth from his hand, where his power lay hidden.
3:5
Before him went pestilence, and plague followed close behind.
3:6
He stopped and shook the earth; he looked and made the nations tremble. The eternal mountains were shattered; along his ancient pathways the everlasting hills sank low.
3:7
I saw the tents of Cushan under affliction; the tent-curtains of the land of Midian trembled.
3:8
Was your wrath against the rivers, O LORD? Or your anger against the rivers, or your rage against the sea, when you drove your horses, your chariots to victory?
3:9
3:10
The mountains saw you, and writhed; a torrent of water swept by; the deep gave forth its voice. The sun raised high its hands;
3:11
the moon stood still in its exalted place, at the light of your arrows speeding by, at the gleam of your flashing spear.
3:12
In fury you trod the earth, in anger you trampled nations.
3:13
You came forth to save your people, to save your anointed. You crushed the head of the wicked house, laying it bare from foundation to roof. Selah
3:14
You pierced with their own arrows the head of his warriors, who came like a whirlwind to scatter us, gloating as if ready to devour the poor who were in hiding.
3:15
You trampled the sea with your horses, churning the mighty waters.
3:16
I hear, and I tremble within; my lips quiver at the sound. Rottenness enters into my bones, and my steps tremble beneath me. I wait quietly for the day of calamity to come upon the people who attack us.
3:17
Though the fig tree does not blossom, and no fruit is on the vines; though the produce of the olive fails, and the fields yield no food; though the flock is cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls,
3:18
yet I will rejoice in the LORD; I will exult in the God of my salvation.
3:19
GOD, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, and makes me tread upon the heights. To the leader: with stringed instruments.