Habakkuk 3:3–15

³God comes from Teman. 

The Holy One comes from Mount Paran. 

Selah 

His splendor covers the heavens. 

His praise fills the earth. 

⁴His brightness is like the sunlight. 

Rays of light ⸤stream⸥ from his hand. 

That is where his power is hidden. 

⁵Diseases go ahead of him. 

Plagues follow after him. 

⁶He stands and shakes the earth. 

He casts a glance and startles the nations. 

The oldest mountains break apart. 

The ancient hills sink. 

The ancient paths belong to him. 

⁷I see trouble in the tents of Cushan. 

I see trembling in the tents of Midian. 

⁸The Lord is not angry with the rivers, is he? 

If you are angry with the rivers, 

if you are furious with the sea, 

⸤why⸥ do you ride your horses, 

your chariots of salvation? 

⁹You get your bow ready for action, 

for the arrows ⸤you⸥ promised. 

Selah 

You split the land with rivers. 

¹⁰The mountains look at you. They writhe in pain. 

Floodwaters pass by. 

The deep ocean roars. Its waves rise up high. 

¹¹The sun and the moon stand still. 

They scatter at the light of your arrows, 

at the bright lightning of your spear. 

¹²You march through the earth with fury. 

You trample the nations in anger. 

¹³You go out to save your people, 

to save your anointed.^b

You crush the leader of the wicked household, 

stripping him bare from head to toe. 

Selah 

¹⁴You pierce the leader of his gang with his own arrows. 

His soldiers come like a violent storm to scatter me. 

They are arrogant like those who secretly eat up the poor. 

¹⁵You march with your horses into the sea, 

into the mighty raging waters.