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Habakkuk 3:12

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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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
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 thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.

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  • Micah 4:12–13

    But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.

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  • Isaiah 41:15

    Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.

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  • Nehemiah 9:22–24

    Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.

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  • Psalms 44:1–3

    We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

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  • Joshua 6:1–12

    Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.

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  • Numbers 21:23–35

    And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

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  • Psalms 78:55

    He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

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