Habakkuk, 3

1. A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.

1. Prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet. To the tune of a dirge.

2. 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.

2. I have heard, Yahweh, of your renown; I stand in awe of your work, O Yahweh. In the middle of years make it known; in your wrath even, remember mercy.

3. 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.

3. God comes from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. His glory shrouds the heavens, his praise fills the earth,

4. And [his] brightness was as the light; he had horns [coming] out of his hand: and there [was] the hiding of his power.

4. his splendor is like the daylight with rays flashing from his hand, radiating from his hidden power.

5. Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.

5. Pestilence goes before him, plague follows close behind.

6. 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.

6. He stands and the earth sways; he looks and the nations tremble. The ancient mountains crumble, the time-honored hills collapse.

7. I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: [and] the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.

7. I saw the tents of Cushan in distress, the pavilions of Midian in anguish.

8. 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?

8. Was your anger against the rivers, Yahweh? Was your wrath against the sea that you drive your steeds with your invincible chariots?

9. Thy bow was made quite naked, [according] to the oaths of the tribes, [even thy] word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.

9. You bare and ready your bow and set upon it your arrow. With rivers you cleave the earth.

10. 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.

10. At your sight the mountains writhe. Torrents of water ragingly sweep by, the deep roaring, lifting its waves high.

11. 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.

11. The sun and moon stood still at the glint of your flying arrows, at the gleam of your flashing spears.

12. Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.

12. You stride the earth in wrath, you trample the nations in rage.

13. 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.

13. You came out to redeem your people, to save your anointed one - you crush the head of the wicked, you lay him bare from head to foot.

14. 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.

14. You pierce with your shafts his warriors who came like a whirlwind to scatter us in joy, to devour the wretched quietly.

15. Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, [through] the heap of great waters.

15. You trample the waters with your horses, amid the churning of the great seas.

16. 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.

16. I heard and my heart pounded, my lips quivered at the sound. Decay crept into my bones; my legs tottered under my body. Yet I wait confidently for the day of distress, when we face the people coming against us.

17. 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:

17. For though the fig trees blossom not, nor grapes be on the vines, though the olive crop fail and the fields produce no food, though the flock be lost from the fold, and the herd be gone from the stalls,

18. Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

18. yet in Yahweh will I rejoice, in God my savior will I exult.

19. 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.

19. My Lord Yahweh is my stronghold; he makes my feet as fleeting as the hinds; he steadies my steps upon the heights. For the choirmaster: with stringed instruments.