Habakkuk, 3

¹ The prayer of Ha·bakʹkuk the prophet in dirges:^*1

² O Jehovah, I have heard the report about you. I have become afraid, O Jehovah, of your activity. In the midst of [the] years O bring it to life! In the midst of [the] years may you make it known. During the agitation, to show mercy may you remember.

³ God^*1 himself proceeded to come from Teʹman,^*2 even a Holy One from Mount Paʹran. Seʹlah.^*3 His dignity covered [the] heavens; and with his praise the earth became filled.

⁴ As for [his]^*1 brightness, it got to be just like the light. He had two rays^*2 [issuing] out of his hand, and there the hiding of his strength was.

⁵ Before him pestilence kept going, and burning fever would go forth at his feet.

⁶ He stood still, that he might shake up [the] earth. He saw, and then caused nations to leap. And the eternal mountains got to be smashed; the indefinitely lasting hills bowed down. The walkings of long ago are his.

⁷ Under what is hurtful I saw the tents of Cuʹshan.^*1 The tent cloths of the land of Midʹi·an began to be agitated.

⁸ Is it against the rivers, O Jehovah, is it against the rivers that your anger has become hot, or is your fury against the sea? For you went riding upon your horses; your chariots were salvation.

⁹ In [its] nakedness your bow comes to be uncovered. The sworn oaths of [the] tribes are the thing said.^*1 Seʹlah. With rivers you proceeded to split [the] earth.

¹⁰ Mountains saw you; they got to be in severe pains. A thunderstorm of waters passed through. The watery deep^*1 gave forth its sound. On high its hands it lifted up.

¹¹ Sun—moon—stood still, in the lofty abode thereof. Like light your own arrows kept going. The lightning of your spear served for brightness.

¹² With denunciation you went marching [through] the earth. In anger you went threshing [the] nations.

¹³ And you went forth for the salvation of your people, to save your anointed one.^*1 You broke to pieces the head one out of the house of the wicked one. There was a laying of the foundation bare, clear up to the neck. Seʹlah.

¹⁴ With his own rods you pierced [the] head of his warriors [when] they moved tempestuously to scatter me. Their high glee was as of those bent on devouring an afflicted one in a place of concealment.

¹⁵ Through the sea you trod [with] your horses, [through] the heap of vast waters.

¹⁶ I heard, and my belly began to be agitated; at the sound my lips quivered; rottenness began to enter into my bones; and in my situation I was agitated, that I should quietly wait for^*1 the day of distress, for [his] coming up to the people, [that] he may raid them.

¹⁷ Although [the] fig tree itself may not blossom, and there may be no yield on the vines; the work of [the] olive tree may actually turn out a failure, and the terraces themselves may actually produce no food; [the] flock may actually be severed from [the] pen, and there may be no herd in the enclosures;

¹⁸ Yet, as for me, I will exult in Jehovah himself; I will be joyful in the God^*1 of my salvation.

¹⁹ Jehovah the Sovereign Lord is my vital energy; and he will make my feet like those of the hinds, and upon my high places he will cause me to tread.

To the director on my stringed instruments.