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Habakkuk 3
1 A prayer by the prophet Habakkuk, set to music. a
2 LORD, as I listen to what has been said about you, I am afraid. LORD, revive your work throughout all of our lives— reveal yourself b throughout all of our lives— when you c are angry, remember compassion.
3 God comes from Teman d — the Holy One from Mount Paran. e Interlude His glory spreads throughout the heavens, and praises about him fill the earth.
4 His radiance is like sunlight; beams of light shine f from his hand, where his strength lays hidden.
5 Before him pestilence walks, and disease follows behind him. g
6 He stood up and shook the land; with his stare he startled the nations. The age-old mountains were shattered, and the ancient hilltops bowed down. His ways are eternal.
7 I saw the tents of Cushan in distress, and the tent curtains of the land of Midian in anguish.
8 Was the LORD displeased with the rivers? Was your anger directed h against the watercourses or your wrath against the sea? Indeed, you rode upon your horses, upon your chariots of deliverance.
9 Your bow was exposed, and your i arrows targeted by command. Interlude You split the earth with rivers.
10 When the mountains looked upon you, they trembled; the overflowing water passed by, the ocean shouted, and its waves j surged upward.
11 The sun and moon stand still in their orbits; at the glint of your arrows they speed along, even at the gleam of your flashing spear.
12 You march through the land in righteous k indignation; you tread down the nations in anger.
13 You marched out to deliver your people, to deliver with your anointed. You struck the head of the house of the wicked; you stripped him naked from head to foot. Interlude
14 With his own lances you pierced the heads of his warriors, who came out like a windstorm to scatter us l — their joy is to devour the afflicted who are in hiding.
15 You rode on the sea with your horses, even riding m the crested waves of mighty waters.
16 I heard and I trembled within. My lips quivered at the noise. My legs gave way beneath me, n and I trembled. Nevertheless, I await the day of distress that will dawn on our invaders.
17 Even though the fig tree does not blossom, and there are no grapes on the vines; even if the olive harvest fails, and the fields produce nothing edible; even if the flock is snatched from the sheepfold, and there is no herd in the stalls—
18 as for me, I will rejoice in the LORD. I will find my joy in the God who delivers me.
19 The LORD God is my strength— he will make my feet like those of a deer, equipping me to tread on my mountain heights.