Habakkuk 3:4–12

⁴He comes with the brightness of lightning;

light flashes from his hand,

there where his power is hidden.

⁵He sends disease before him

and commands death to follow him.

⁶When he stops, the earth shakes;

at his glance the nations tremble.

The eternal mountains are shattered;

the everlasting hills sink down,

the hills where he walked in ancient times.

⁷I saw the people of Cushan afraid

and the people of Midian tremble.

⁸Was it the rivers that made you angry, Lord?

Was it the sea that made you furious?

You rode upon the clouds;

the storm cloud was your chariot,

as you brought victory to your people.

⁹You got ready to use your bow,

ready to shoot your arrows.^g

Your lightning split open the earth.

¹⁰When the mountains saw you, they trembled;

water poured down from the skies.

The waters under the earth roared,

and their waves rose high.

¹¹At the flash of your speeding arrows

and the gleam of your shining spear,

the sun and the moon stood still.

¹²You marched across the earth in anger;

in fury you trampled the nations.