Old Testament · Prophets

Habakkuk chapter 3

A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet. On .Yahweh, I have heard the report of you, and I am afraid. Yahweh, do your work again in the middle of our own years. In the middle of our years let it be known. In all that rage, remember .God comes up from , from Mount . . His brightness covers the sky, and the earth is full of his praise.The light of him is like sunrise. Rays go out from his hand, and that is where his power is hidden.Plague walks ahead of him, and comes out at his feet.He stopped, and took the measure of the earth. He looked, and the nations jumped. The ancient mountains cracked apart. The oldest hills went down flat. The roads he walks have always been his.I saw the tents of in trouble, the tent cloth of Midian shaking.Was it the rivers you were angry at, Yahweh? Was the rivers what your anger was for, or , that you came at it in fury, riding your horses, your chariots that carry rescue?You stripped your bow bare, your arrows sworn and ready. Selah. You split the ground open with rivers.The mountains saw you and twisted. A wall of water swept past. gave its voice and lifted its hands as high as they would go.Sun and moon stood still in their high house at the light of your arrows going over, at the flash of your shining spear.You marched across the earth in anger. You the nations under your feet.You came out to rescue your people, to rescue . You knocked the head off the house of the corrupt and stripped it bare from the foundation to the roof. Selah.You drove his own arrows through the head of his fighters when they came on like a storm to scatter us, laughing already, as if they were about to eat a poor man alive in his hiding place.You rode your horses over the sea, churning the great water into foam.I heard it, and . My lips shook at the sound. Rot came into my bones and my legs went out from under me. So I will wait for the day of trouble to come up on the people who are raiding us.Even if puts out no buds and there is nothing hanging on the vines, if the olive crop and the fields bring up no food, if the sheep are gone from the pen and there is not one cow left in the stalls,even then I will be glad because of Yahweh. I will in .Yahweh my Lord is my strength. He gives me and sets me walking on .