Habakkuk 3:9

It was as though you uncovered your bow, took arrows from your quiver, and prepared to shoot them. Then with lightning you split open the earth, and streams burst forth.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.

In Context

8Yahweh, was it because you were angry with the rivers and streams that you were angry with them? Did the seas cause you to be furious, with the result that you rode through them with horses that were pulling chariots that enabled you to defeat them?

10It is as though the mountains saw you doing that, and they trembled. Floods rushed by; it was as though the deep ocean roared and caused its waves to rise up high.

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Cross References

Genesis 17:7I will make this agreement between me and you and your descendants. It will be an everlasting agreement to be in effect for many generations. This agreement is that I will be your God, and the God of your descendants.

Genesis 26:3Stay in this land for a while, and I will help you and bless you, because it is to you and your descendants that I will give all these lands, and I will do what I solemnly promised to your father.

Exodus 17:6Listen carefully: I will stand in front of you on top of a large rock at the foot of the mountain. Strike the rock with your stick. When you do that, water for the people to drink will flow out of the rock.” When they/we arrived at the mountain, Moses/I did that while the Israeli elders were watching, and water flowed from the rock.

Deuteronomy 32:23I will cause them to experience many disasters; they will feel as though [MET] I am shooting all my arrows at them.

Psalms 7:12Whenever your enemies do not ◄repent/change their behavior►, it is as though [MET] you sharpen your sword and put a string on your bow to get ready to kill them.

Psalms 78:15He split rocks open in the desert, giving to our ancestors plenty of water from deep inside the earth.

Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 3:4-16

The Divine Majesty; Wonders Wrought for Israel. ( b. c. 600.) 3 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. 4 And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power. 5 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. 6 He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the… Read the whole commentary →

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