Habakkuk 3:14-16

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Habakkuk 3:14 tn Some take “warriors” with the following line, in which case one should translate, “you pierce [his] head with a spear; his warriors storm forward to scatter us” (cf. NIV). The meaning of the Hebrew term פְּרָזוֹ (p^erazo), translated here “his warriors,” is uncertain.
2. Habakkuk 3:14 tc Heb “his shafts.” Some emend to “your shafts.” The translation above assumes an emendation to מַטֶּה (matteh, “shaft, spear”), the vav-yod (ו-י) sequence being derived from an original he (ה).
3. Habakkuk 3:14 tn Heb “me,” but the author speaks as a representative of God’s people.
4. Habakkuk 3:14 tn Heb “their rejoicing is like devouring the poor in secret.”
5. Habakkuk 3:15 tn Heb “the foaming of the mighty [or “many”] waters.”
6. Habakkuk 3:16 tn Heb “my insides trembled.”
7. Habakkuk 3:16 tn Heb “decay entered my bones.”
8. Habakkuk 3:16 tc Heb “beneath me I shook, which….” The Hebrew term אֲשֶׁר (’asher) appears to be a relative pronoun, but a relative pronoun does not fit here. The translation assumes a reading אֲשֻׁרָי (’ashuray, “my steps”) as well as an emendation of the preceding verb to a third plural form.
9. Habakkuk 3:16 tn The translation assumes that אָנוּחַ (’anuakh) is from the otherwise unattested verb נָוָח (navakh, “sigh”; see HALOT 680 s.v. II נוח; so also NEB). Most take this verb as נוּחַ (nuakh, “to rest”) and translate, “I wait patiently” (cf. NIV).
10. Habakkuk 3:16 tn Heb “to come up toward.”