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Habakkuk 3:11

9 You brandished Your bow; You called for many arrows. Selah You split the earth with rivers.

10 The mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high.

Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.

12 You marched across the earth with fury; You threshed the nations in wrath.

13 You 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

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining 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.
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.
ASV
The sun and moon stood still in their habitation, At the light of thine arrows as they went, At the shining of thy glittering spear.
DARBY
The sun [and] moon stood still in their habitation, At the light of thine arrows which shot forth, At the shining of thy glittering spear.
BLB
The sun [and] moon stood still in its high place; at the light of Your arrows they went forth, at the brightness of the flashing of Your spear.
ÅB
Sol og måne treder inn i sin bolig for lyset av dine piler, som farer fram, for glansen av ditt lynende spyd.
OTB
Sol og måne sto stille på sine steder
ved lyset av Dine flygende piler,
ved glansen av Ditt blinkende spyd.
B1930
Sol og måne treder inn i sin bolig for lyset av dine piler, som farer frem, for glansen av ditt lynende spyd.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Psalms 144:5–6

    Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.

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  • Psalms 18:12–14

    From the brightness of His presence His clouds advanced— hailstones and coals of fire.

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  • Joshua 10:11–13

    As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.

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  • Isaiah 38:8

    I will make the sun’s shadow that falls on the stairway of Ahaz go back ten steps.’” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had descended.

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  • Isaiah 28:21

    For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work, and to perform His task, His disturbing task.

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  • Psalms 19:4

    their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.

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  • Psalms 77:17–18

    The clouds poured down water; the skies resounded with thunder; Your arrows flashed back and forth.

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