AB - Habakkuk - 3

3:1  A prayer of the prophet Habakkuk, with a song.

3:2  O Lord, I have heard Your report, and was afraid: I considered Your works, and was amazed: You shall be known between the two living creatures, You shall be acknowledged when the years draw nigh; You shall be manifested when the time is come; when my soul is troubled, You will in wrath remember mercy.

3:3  God shall come from Teman, and the Holy One from the dark shady Mount Paran. Pause.

3:4  His excellence covered the heavens, and the earth was full of His praise. And His brightness shall be as light; there were horns in His hands, and He caused a mighty love of His strength.

3:5  Before His face shall go a report, and it shall go forth into the plains,

3:6  the earth stood at His feet and trembled: He beheld, and the nations melted away: the mountains were violently burst through, the everlasting hills melted at His everlasting going forth.

3:7  Because of troubles I looked upon the tents of the Ethiopians: the tabernacles also of the land of Midian shall be dismayed.

3:8  Were You angry, O Lord, with the rivers? Or was Your wrath against the rivers, or Your anger against the sea? For You will mount on Your horses, and Your chariots are salvation.

3:9  Surely you bent your bow at scepters, says the Lord. Pause. The land of rivers shall be torn asunder.

3:10  The nations shall see You and be in pain, as You divided the moving waters: the deep uttered her voice, and raised her form on high.

3:11  The sun was exalted, and the moon stood still in her course: Your darts shall go forth at the light, at the brightness of the gleaming of Your spear.

3:12  You will bring low the land with threatening, and in wrath You will break down the nations.

3:13  You went forth for the salvation of Your people, to save Your anointed: You shall bring death on the heads of transgressors; You have brought bands upon their neck. Pause.

3:14  You thrust through the heads of princes with amazement, they shall tremble in it; they shall burst their bridles, they shall be as a poor man devouring in secret.

3:15  And You caused Your horses to enter the sea, disturbing much water.

3:16  I watched, and my belly trembled at the sound of the prayer of my lips, and trembling entered into my bones, and my frame was troubled within me; I will rest in the day of affliction, from going up to the people of my sojourning.

3:17  For though the fig tree shall bear no fruit, and there shall be no produce on the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall produce no food: the sheep have failed from the pasture, and there are no oxen at the cribs;

3:18  yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in God my Savior.

3:19  The Lord God is my strength, and He will perfectly strengthen my feet; He mounts me upon high places, that I may conquer by His song.