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Habakkuk 3 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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CHAPTER 3
The Prophet’s Prayer
The Prophet’s Prayer
1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, on Shigionoth.[fn]
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2 ​​O LORD, I have heard Your speech and was afraid;
​​O LORD, revive Your work in the midst of the years!
​​In the midst of the years make it known;
​​In wrath remember mercy.
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3 ​​God came from Teman,
​​The Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah
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​​His glory covered the heavens,
​​And the earth was full of His praise.
4 ​​His brightness was like the light;
​​He had rays flashing from His hand,
​​And there His power was hidden.
5 ​​Before Him went pestilence,
​​And fever followed at His feet.
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6 ​​He stood and measured the earth;
​​He looked and startled the nations.
​​And the everlasting mountains were scattered,
​​The perpetual hills bowed.
​​His ways are everlasting.
7 ​​I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction;
​​The curtains of the land of Midian trembled.
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8 ​​O LORD, were You displeased with the rivers,
​​Was Your anger against the rivers,
​​Was Your wrath against the sea,
​​That You rode on Your horses,
​​Your chariots of salvation?
9 ​​Your bow was made quite ready;
​​Oaths were sworn over Your arrows.[fn] Selah
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​​You divided the earth with rivers.
10 ​​The mountains saw You and trembled;
​​The overflowing of the water passed by.
​​The deep uttered its voice,
​​And lifted its hands on high.
11 ​​The sun and moon stood still in their habitation;
​​At the light of Your arrows they went,
​​At the shining of Your glittering spear.
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12 ​​You marched through the land in indignation;
​​You trampled the nations in anger.
13 ​​You went forth for the salvation of Your people,
​​For salvation with Your Anointed.
​​You struck the head from the house of the wicked,
​​By laying bare from foundation to neck. Selah
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14 ​​You thrust through with his own arrows
​​The head of his villages.
​​They came out like a whirlwind to scatter me;
​​Their rejoicing was like feasting on the poor in secret.
15 ​​You walked through the sea with Your horses,
​​Through the heap of great waters.
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16 ​​When I heard, my body trembled;
​​My lips quivered at the voice;
​​Rottenness entered my bones;
​​And I trembled in myself,
​​That I might rest in the day of trouble.
​​When he comes up to the people,
​​He will invade them with his troops.
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A Hymn of Faith
17 ​​Though the fig tree may not blossom,
​​Nor fruit be on the vines;
​​Though the labor of the olive may fail,
​​And the fields yield no food;
​​Though the flock may be cut off from the fold,
​​And there be no herd in the stalls—
18 ​​Yet I will rejoice in the LORD,
​​I will joy in the God of my salvation.
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19 ​​The LORD God[fn] is my strength;
​​He will make my feet like deer’s feet,
​​And He will make me walk on my high hills.
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To the Chief Musician. With my stringed instruments.
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
Exact meaning unknown
Literally rods or tribes (compare verse 14)
Hebrew YHWH Adonai
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