Habakkuk 3:4–12

^4dHis brightness was like the light;

rays flashed from his hand;

and there he veiled his power.

^5eBefore him went pestilence,

and plague followed ^fat his heels.¹

⁶He stood ^gand measured the earth;

he looked and shook the nations;

then the ^heternal mountains ⁱwere scattered;

the everlasting hills sank low.

His were ^jthe everlasting ways.

⁷I saw the tents of ^kCushan in affliction;

^lthe curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.

^8mWas your wrath against the rivers, O Lord?

Was your anger against the rivers,

^mor your indignation against the sea,

ⁿwhen you rode on your horses,

ⁿon your chariot of salvation?

⁹You stripped the sheath from your bow,

calling for many arrows.² Selah

^pYou split the earth with rivers.

^10qThe mountains saw you and writhed;

the raging waters swept on;

^rthe deep gave forth its voice;

^sit lifted its hands on high.

^11tThe sun and moon stood still in their place

^uat the light of your arrows as they sped,

at the flash of your glittering spear.

^12vYou marched through the earth in fury;

^wyou threshed the nations in anger.