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Habakkuk 3:10-12
New English Translation
Habakkuk 3:10-12
New English Translation
10 When the mountains see you, they shake.
The torrential downpour sweeps through.[a]
The great deep[b] shouts out;
it lifts its hands high.[c]
11 The sun and moon stand still in their courses;[d]
the flash of your arrows drives them away,[e]
the bright light of your lightning-quick spear.[f]
12 You furiously stomp on the earth;
you angrily trample down the nations.
Footnotes
- Habakkuk 3:10 tn Heb “a heavy rain of waters passes by.” Perhaps the flash floods produced by the downpour are in view here.
- Habakkuk 3:10 sn The great deep, which is to be equated with the sea (vv. 8, 15), is a symbol of chaos and represents the Lord’s enemies.
- Habakkuk 3:10 sn Lifting the hands here suggests panic and is accompanied by a cry for mercy (see Ps 28:2; Lam 2:19). The forces of chaos cannot withstand the Lord’s power revealed in the storm.
- Habakkuk 3:11 tn Heb “in their lofty dwelling places.”
- Habakkuk 3:11 tn Or “at the light of your arrows they vanish.”
- Habakkuk 3:11 tn Heb “at the brightness of the lightning of your spear.”
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