Habakkuk 3:7

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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: I saw the tents of Cushan in distress; the curtains of Midian were trembling.
KJV: I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
WEB: I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction. The dwellings of the land of Midian trembled.
ASV: I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction; The curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
DARBY: I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction; The curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
BLB: Under affliction I have seen the tents of Cushan; the curtains of the land of Midian were trembling.

ÅB: Jeg ser Kusans telter i sorg, teltteppene i Midians land bever.
OTB: Jeg så teltene til Kusjan i nød,
og teltgardinene til Midjan skalv.
B1930: Jeg ser Kusans telter i sorg, teltteppene i Midians land bever.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Exodus 15:14–16
The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.
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Genesis 25:1–4
Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.
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Numbers 22:3–4
And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.
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Psalms 83:5–10
For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
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Genesis 10:6–7
And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
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Joshua 2:10
For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
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Numbers 31:2–12
Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
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Joshua 9:24
And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
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