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12 Thou didst bestride the earth in fury,
    thou didst trample the nations in anger.
13 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people,
    for the salvation of thy anointed.
Thou didst crush the head of the wicked,[a]
    laying him bare from thigh to neck.[b]
                Selah
14 Thou didst pierce with thy[c] shafts the head of his warriors,[d]
    who came like a whirlwind to scatter me,
    rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret.

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 3:13 Cn: Heb head from the house of the wicked
  2. Habakkuk 3:13 Heb obscure
  3. Habakkuk 3:14 Heb his
  4. Habakkuk 3:14 Vg Compare Gk Syr: Heb uncertain

12 In wrath you strode through the earth
    and in anger you threshed(A) the nations.
13 You came out(B) to deliver(C) your people,
    to save your anointed(D) one.
You crushed(E) the leader of the land of wickedness,
    you stripped him from head to foot.
14 With his own spear you pierced his head
    when his warriors stormed out to scatter us,(F)
gloating as though about to devour
    the wretched(G) who were in hiding.

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