Habakkuk 3
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The prophet beseeches God for his people
Verse 1
WEB A prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet, set to victorious music.
KJV A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.
TSK prayer: ps 86:1-17, ps 90:1-17; upon Shigionoth: ps 7:1-17
Verse 2
WEB Yahweh, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, Yahweh. Renew your work in the midst of the years. In the midst of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.
KJV O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.
TSK I have: hab 3:16, hab 1:5-10, ex 9:20,21, 2ch 34:27,28, job 4:12-21, ps 119:120, isa 66:2, jer 36:21-24, da 8:17, heb 11:7, heb 12:21, re 15:4; speech: isa 53:1, ro 10:16; O Lord: ezr 9:8, ps 85:6, ps 90:13-17, ps 138:7,8, isa 51:9-11, isa 63:15-19, isa 64:1-4, ho 6:2,3, joh 10:10, php 1:6; in the: jer 25:11,12, jer 52:31-34, da 9:2; in wrath: ex 32:10-12, nu 14:10-23, nu 16:46,47, 2sa 24:10-17, ps 6:1,2, ps 38:1, ps 78:38, jer 10:24, jer 29:10, la 3:32, zec 1:12
He sends words to mind former deliverances
Verse 3
WEB God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.
KJV God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.
TSK came: jud 5:4,5, ps 68:7,8, isa 64:3; from: ge 36:11, jer 49:7, am 1:12, ob 1:9; Paran: ge 21:21, nu 10:12, de 33:2, 1sa 25:1; Selah: ps 3:2,4, ps 4:4, ps 9:16,20; His glory: ex 19:16-20, ex 20:18, ex 24:15-17, de 5:24, ps 68:17, ps 114:3-7; and the earth: isa 6:3, 2co 3:7-11, re 5:13,14
Verse 4
WEB His splendor is like the sunrise. Rays shine from his hand, where his power is hidden.
KJV And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
TSK brightness: ex 13:21, ex 14:20, ne 9:12, ps 104:2, isa 60:19,20, mt 17:2, 1ti 6:16, re 21:23, re 22:5; the hiding: job 26:14, pr 18:10
Verse 5
WEB Plague went before him, and pestilence followed his feet.
KJV Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.
TSK went: ex 12:29,30, nu 14:12, nu 16:46-49, ps 78:50,51, na 1:2,3; and: ps 18:7-13; burning coals: de 32:24
Verse 6
WEB He 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.
KJV He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
TSK and measured: ex 15:17, ex 21:31, nu 34:1-29, de 32:8, ac 17:26; and drove: jos 10:42, jos 11:18-23, ne 9:22-24, ps 135:8-12; the everlasting: hab 3:10, ge 49:26, de 33:15, jud 5:5, ps 68:16, ps 114:4-7, isa 64:1-3, na 1:5, zec 14:4,5; his: ps 90:2, ps 103:17, isa 51:6,8, mic 5:8, mt 24:35, lu 1:50, heb 13:8
Verse 7
WEB I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction. The dwellings of the land of Midian trembled.
KJV I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
TSK saw the: ex 15:14-16, nu 22:3,4, jos 2:10, jos 9:24; Cushan: ge 10:6,7; Midian: ge 25:1-4, nu 31:2-12, ps 83:5-10
Verse 8
WEB Was 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?
KJV Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?
TSK the Lord: ex 14:21,22, jos 3:16,17, ps 114:3,5, isa 50:2, na 1:4, mr 4:39, re 16:12; ride: hab 3:15, de 33:26,27, ps 18:10, ps 45:4, ps 68:4,17, ps 104:3, isa 19:1, re 6:2, re 19:11,14
Verse 9
WEB You uncovered your bow. You called for your sworn arrows. Selah. You split the earth with rivers.
KJV Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
TSK bow: de 32:23, ps 7:12,13, ps 35:1-3, isa 51:9,10, isa 52:10, la 2:4; according: ge 15:18-21, ge 17:7,8, ge 22:16-18, ge 26:3,4, ge 28:13,14, ps 105:8-11, lu 1:72-75, heb 6:13-18; Selah: hab 3:9, ps 143:6; Thou: ex 17:6, nu 20:11, ps 78:15,16, ps 105:41, 1co 10:4
Verse 10
WEB The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.
KJV The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
TSK mountains: hab 3:6, ex 19:16-18, jud 5:4,5, ps 68:7,8, ps 77:18, ps 97:4,5, ps 114:4,6, isa 64:1,2, jer 4:24, mic 1:4, na 1:5, mt 27:51, re 6:14, re 20:11; the overflowing: ex 14:22-28, jos 3:15,16, jos 4:18,23,24, ne 9:11, ps 18:15, ps 66:6, ps 74:13-15, ps 77:16-19, ps 114:3-8, ps 136:13-15, isa 11:15,16, isa 63:11-13, heb 11:29, re 16:12; the deep: ps 65:13, ps 93:3, ps 96:11-13, ps 98:7,8, isa 43:20, isa 55:12
Verse 11
WEB The sun and moon stood still in the sky, at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.
KJV The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.
TSK sun: jos 10:12,13, isa 28:21, isa 38:8; habitation: ps 19:4; at the light of thine arrows they went: jos 10:11, ps 18:12-14, ps 77:17,18, ps 144:5,6
Verse 12
WEB You marched through the land in wrath. You threshed the nations in anger.
KJV Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
TSK didst march: nu 21:23-35, jos 6:1-12, ne 9:22-24, ps 44:1-3, ps 78:55, ac 13:19; thresh: jer 51:33, am 1:3, mic 4:12,13
Verse 13
WEB You went forth 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.
KJV Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.
TSK wentest: ex 14:13,14, ex 15:1,2, ps 68:7,19-23; with: ps 77:20, ps 89:19-21, ps 99:6, ps 105:15,26, isa 63:11; thou woundedst: ex 12:29,30, jos 10:11,24,42, jos 11:8,12, ps 18:37-45, ps 68:21, ps 74:13,14, ps 110:6
Verse 14
WEB You 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.
KJV Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
TSK the head: ex 11:4-7, ex 12:12,13,29,30, ex 14:17,18, ps 78:50,51, ps 83:9-11; they: ex 14:5-9, ex 15:9,10, ps 83:2,8, ps 118:10-12, ac 4:27,28; came out: da 11:40, zec 9:14; their: ex 1:10-16,22, ps 10:8, ps 64:2-7
His firm trust in the holy mercy
Verse 16
WEB I 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.
KJV When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.
TSK I heard: hab 3:2, hab 1:5-11; my belly: ps 119:120, jer 23:9, eze 3:14, da 8:27, da 10:8; that I: ps 91:15, ps 94:12,13, isa 26:20,21, jer 15:10,11, jer 45:3-5, eze 9:4-6, 2th 1:6-9; he will: hab 1:6, de 28:49-52, 2ki 24:1,2, jer 25:9-11
Verse 17
WEB For 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:
KJV Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
TSK the fig-tree: de 28:15-18,30-41, jer 14:2-8, joe 1:10-13,16-18, am 4:6-10, hag 2:16,17
Verse 18
WEB yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!
KJV Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
TSK I will rejoice: de 12:18, 1sa 2:1, job 13:15, ps 33:1, ps 46:1-5, ps 85:6, ps 97:12, ps 104:34, ps 118:15, ps 149:2, isa 41:16, isa 61:10, zec 10:7, lu 1:46,47, ro 5:2,3, php 4:4, jas 1:2,9,10, 1pe 1:8, 1pe 4:12,13; the God: ex 15:2, ps 25:5, ps 27:1, ps 118:14, isa 12:2, mic 7:7, lu 2:30
Verse 19
WEB Yahweh, 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.
KJV The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.
TSK my strength: ps 18:1, ps 27:1, ps 46:1, isa 12:2, isa 45:24, zec 10:12, 2co 12:9,10, eph 3:16, php 4:13, col 1:11; like: 2sa 22:34, ps 18:33; to walk: de 32:13, de 33:29, isa 58:14; stringed instruments: ps 4:1-8, ps 6:1-10, ps 54:1-7, ps 55:1-23, ps 67:1-7, ps 76:1-12