Habakkuk 3:3-16

English Standard Version

³ God came from ^(A)Teman,
    ^(B)and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah
His splendor covered the heavens,
    and the earth was full of his praise.
^4 (C)His brightness was like the light;
    rays flashed from his hand;
    and there he veiled his power.
^5 (D)Before him went pestilence,
    and plague followed ^(E)at his heels.^[a]
6 He stood ^(F)and measured the earth;
    he looked and shook the nations;
then the ^(G)eternal mountains ^(H)were scattered;
    the everlasting hills sank low.
    His were ^(I)the everlasting ways.
⁷ I saw the tents of ^(J)Cushan in affliction;
    ^(K)the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
^8 (L)Was your wrath against the rivers, O Lord?
    Was your anger against the rivers,
    ^(M)or your indignation against the sea,
^(N)when you rode on your horses,
    ^(O)on your chariot of salvation?
⁹ You stripped the sheath from your bow,
    calling for many arrows.^[b] Selah
    ^(P)You split the earth with rivers.
^10 (Q)The mountains saw you and writhed;
    the raging waters swept on;
^(R)the deep gave forth its voice;
    ^(S)it lifted its hands on high.
^11 (T)The sun and moon stood still in their place
    ^(U)at the light of your arrows as they sped,
    at the flash of your glittering spear.
^12 (V)You marched through the earth in fury;
    ^(W)you threshed the nations in anger.
^13 (X)You went out for the salvation of your people,
    for the salvation of ^(Y)your anointed.
^(Z)You crushed the head of the house of the wicked,
    laying him bare from thigh to neck.^[c] Selah
¹⁴ You pierced with his own arrows the heads of his warriors,
    who came like a whirlwind to scatter me,
    rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret.
^15 (AA)You trampled the sea with your horses,
    the surging of mighty waters.