Habakkuk 3:3–15

³God, you came from Teman.

You, the Holy One, came from Mount Paran. Selah

Your glory covered the heavens.

Your praise filled the earth.

⁴Your glory was like the sunrise.

Rays of light flashed from your mighty hand.

Your power was hidden there.

⁵You sent plagues ahead of you.

Sickness followed behind you.

⁶When you stood up, the earth shook.

When you looked at the nations,

they trembled with fear.

The age-old mountains crumbled.

The ancient hills fell down.

Your mighty acts will last forever.

⁷I saw the tents of Cushan in trouble.

The people of Midian were suffering greatly.

⁸Lord, did your anger burn against the rivers?

Were you angry with the streams?

Were you angry with the Red Sea?

You rode your horses and chariots

to overcome it.

⁹You got your bow ready to use.

You asked for many arrows. Selah

You broke up the surface

of the earth with rivers.

¹⁰The mountains saw you and shook.

Floods of water swept by.

The sea roared.

It lifted its waves high.

¹¹The sun and moon stood still in the sky.

They stopped because your flying arrows flashed by.

Your gleaming spear shone like lightning.

¹²When you were angry, you marched across the earth.

Because of your anger you destroyed the nations.

¹³You came out to set your people free.

You saved your chosen ones.

You crushed Pharaoh, the leader of that evil land of Egypt.

You stripped him from head to foot. Selah

¹⁴His soldiers rushed out to scatter us.

They were laughing at us.

They thought they would easily destroy us.

They saw us as weak people who were trying to hide.

So you wounded Pharaoh’s head with his own spear.

¹⁵Your horses charged into the Red Sea.

They stirred up the great waters.