Habakkuk 3:12
10 The mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high.
11 Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.
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
14 With his own spear You pierced his head, when his warriors stormed out to scatter us, gloating as though ready to secretly devour the weak.
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.
Compare
- BSB
- You marched across the earth with fury; You threshed the nations in wrath.
- KJV
- Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
- WEB
- You marched through the land in wrath. You threshed the nations in anger.
- ASV
- Thou didst march though the land in indignation; Thou didst thresh the nations in anger.
- DARBY
- Thou didst march through the land in indignation, Thou didst thresh the nations in anger.
- BLB
- In wrath You marched through the land, in anger You trampled the nations.
- ÅB
- I harme skrider du fram over jorden, i vrede treder du folkene ned.
- OTB
- I vrede marsjerte Du gjennom jorden;
i sinne tresket Du nasjonene. - B1930
- I harme skrider du frem over jorden, i vrede treder du folkene ned.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 51:33
For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.”
Read in contextMicah 4:12–13
But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD or understand His plan, for He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.
Read in contextIsaiah 41:15
Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.
Read in contextNehemiah 9:22–24
You gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner of the land. So they took the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and of Og king of Bashan.
Read in contextPsalms 44:1–3
We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.
Read in contextJoshua 6:1–12
Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in.
Read in contextNumbers 21:23–35
But Sihon would not let Israel pass through his territory. Instead, he gathered his whole army and went out to confront Israel in the wilderness. When he came to Jahaz, he fought against Israel.
Read in contextPsalms 78:55
He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
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