Habakkuk 3

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1. 1A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet on Shigionoth.
2. 2O LORD, I have heard your speech and was afraid. O LORD, revive your work in the midst of the years; in the midst of the years make it known. In wrath, remember mercy.
3. 3God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was filled with his praise.
4. 4His brightness was like the light; he had rays coming from his hand, and there his power was hidden.
5. 5Pestilence marched ahead of him, and burning coals went forth at his feet.
6. 6He stood and measured the earth; he looked and scattered the nations. The everlasting mountains were scattered, and the perpetual hills bowed. His ways are everlasting.
7. 7I saw the tents of Cushan in distress, and the curtains of the land of Midian trembled.
8. 8Was the LORD displeased with the rivers? Was your anger against the rivers? Was your wrath against the sea, that you rode on your horses and your chariots of salvation?
9. 9Your bow was completely uncovered, according to the oaths of the tribes, even your word. Selah. You split the earth with rivers.
10. 10The mountains saw you and trembled. Torrents of water swept past. The deep uttered its voice and lifted up its hands on high.
11. 11The sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of your flying arrows, at the gleam of your glittering spear.
12. 12You marched through the land in indignation. You threshed the heathen in anger.
13. 13You went out for the salvation of your people, for salvation with your anointed. You wounded the head out of the house of the wicked, by uncovering the foundation up to the neck. Selah.
14. 14You pierced the heads of his villages with their own spears: they came out like a whirlwind to scatter me, rejoicing as if to devour the poor secretly.
15. 15You walked through the sea with your horses, through the heap of great waters.
16. 16When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the sound. Rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled within myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he comes up against the people, he will invade them with his troops.
17. 17Even if the fig tree doesn't bloom and the vines produce no grapes, even if the olive crop fails and the fields grow no food, even if the flocks vanish from the pen and no cattle stand in the stalls —
18. 18still, I will rejoice in the LORD! I will find my joy in the God of my salvation!
19. 19The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like a doe's feet, and he will make me walk upon my high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.