Habakkuk
3 The prayer of Ha·bakʹkuk the prophet in dirges:* 2 O Jehovah, I have heard the report about you.+ I have become afraid, O Jehovah, of your activity.+
In the midst of [the] years O bring it to life! In the midst of [the] years may you make it known. During the agitation, to show mercy may you remember.+
3 God* himself proceeded to come from Teʹman,* even a Holy One from Mount Paʹran.+ Seʹlah.*+
His dignity covered [the] heavens;+ and with his praise the earth became filled.+
4 As for [his]* brightness, it got to be just like the light.+ He had two rays* [issuing] out of his hand, and there the hiding of his strength was.+
5 Before him pestilence kept going,+ and burning fever would go forth at his feet.+
6 He stood still, that he might shake up [the] earth.+ He saw, and then caused nations to leap.+
And the eternal mountains got to be smashed;+ the indefinitely lasting hills bowed down.+ The walkings of long ago are his.
7 Under what is hurtful I saw the tents of Cuʹshan.* The tent cloths of the land of Midʹi·an+ began to be agitated.+
8 Is it against the rivers, O Jehovah, is it against the rivers that your anger has become hot,+ or is your fury against the sea?+ For you went riding upon your horses;+ your chariots were salvation.+
9 In [its] nakedness your bow comes to be uncovered.+ The sworn oaths of [the] tribes are the thing said.*+ Seʹlah. With rivers you proceeded to split [the] earth.+
10 Mountains saw you; they got to be in severe pains.+ A thunderstorm of waters passed through. The watery deep* gave forth its sound.+ On high its hands it lifted up.
11 Sun—moon—stood still,+ in the lofty abode thereof.+ Like light your own arrows kept going.+ The lightning of your spear served for brightness.+
12 With denunciation you went marching [through] the earth. In anger you went threshing [the] nations.+
13 And you went forth for the salvation of your people,+ to save your anointed one.* You broke to pieces the head one out of the house of the wicked one.+ There was a laying of the foundation bare, clear up to the neck.+ Seʹlah.
14 With his own rods you pierced+ [the] head of his warriors [when] they moved tempestuously to scatter me.+ Their high glee was as of those bent on devouring an afflicted one in a place of concealment.+
15 Through the sea you trod [with] your horses, [through] the heap of vast waters.+
16 I heard, and my belly began to be agitated; at the sound my lips quivered; rottenness began to enter into my bones;+ and in my situation I was agitated, that I should quietly wait for* the day of distress,+ for [his] coming up to the people,+ [that] he may raid them.
17 Although [the] fig tree itself may not blossom,+ and there may be no yield on the vines; the work of [the] olive tree may actually turn out a failure, and the terraces themselves may actually produce no food;+ [the] flock may actually be severed from [the] pen, and there may be no herd in the enclosures;+
18 Yet, as for me, I will exult in Jehovah himself;+ I will be joyful in the God* of my salvation.+
19 Jehovah the Sovereign Lord is my vital energy;+ and he will make my feet like those of the hinds,+ and upon my high places he will cause me to tread.+
To the director on my stringed instruments.