Habakkuk 3:4
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3:4He is as bright as lightning;16
a two-pronged lightning bolt flashes from his hand.17
This is the outward display of his power.18
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- 16 Heb “[His] radiance is like light.” Some see a reference to sunlight, but the Hebrew word אוֹר (’or) here refers to lightning, as the context indicates (see vv. 4b, 9, 11). The word also refers to lightning in Job 36:32 and 37:3, 11, 15.
- 17 Heb “two horns from his hand to him.” Sharp, pointed lightning bolts have a “horn-like” appearance. The weapon of “double lightning” appears often in Mesopotamian representations of gods. See Elizabeth Van Buren, Symbols of the Gods in Mesopotamian Art (), 70–73.
- 18 Heb “and there [is] the covering of his strength”; or “and there is his strong covering.” The meaning of this line is unclear. The point may be that the lightning bolts are merely a covering, or outward display, of God’s raw power. In Job 36:32 one reads that God “covers his hands with light [or, “lightning”].”
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
His brightness was like the light;
rays flashed from his hand;
and there he veiled his power.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
His splendor was like the sunrise;
rays flashed from his hand,
where his power was hidden.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
His brilliance is like light;
rays are flashing from his hand.
This is where his power is hidden.
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NLTNew Living Translation
His coming is as brilliant as the sunrise.
Rays of light flash from his hands,
where his awesome power is hidden.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
And his brightness was like the light;
flashing rays came from his hand for him;
And there is the covering of his strength.
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KJV 1900King James Version
And his brightness was as the light;
He had horns coming out of his hand:
And there was the hiding of his power.
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