Habakkuk 3:4–12

⁴His brightness was like the light,

rays flashed from his hand;

and there he veiled his power.

⁵Before him went pestilence,

and plague followed close behind.

⁶He stood and measured the earth;

he looked and shook the nations;

then the eternal mountains were scattered,

the everlasting hills sank low.

His ways were as of old.

⁷I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction;

the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.

⁸Was thy wrath against the rivers, O Lord?

Was thy anger against the rivers,

or thy indignation against the sea,

when thou didst ride upon thy horses,

upon thy chariot of victory?

⁹Thou didst strip the sheath from thy bow,

and put the arrows to the string.

Selah

Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.

¹⁰The mountains saw thee, and writhed;

the raging waters swept on;

the deep gave forth its voice,

it lifted its hands on high.

¹¹The sun and moon stood still in their habitation

at the light of thine arrows as they sped,

at the flash of thy glittering spear.

¹²Thou didst bestride the earth in fury,

thou didst trample the nations in anger.