The Hebrew Bible often depicts God intervening powerfully through human events to modify history. These interventions of God are generally finite and localized. Nevertheless, prophets such as Habakkuk often emphasized their supernatural quality using Israel’s poetic and mythological traditions. Habakkuk 3 expresses hope of a future supernatural event, when God will march forth in a pyrotechnic display to defeat evil. It speaks of the melting and splitting of mountains and valleys at the marching forth