Habakkuk 3:9

Habakkuk chapter 3 · verse 9 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Thy bow was made quite bare; The oaths to the tribes were asure word. [Selah Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Thy bow was made quite bare; The oaths to the tribes were asure word. [Selah Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.

Context

v.8Was Jehovah displeased with the rivers? Was thine anger against the rivers, Or thy wrath against the sea, That thou didst ride upon thy horses, Upon thy chariots of salvation?

v.9This passage

v.10The mountains saw thee, and were afraid; The tempest of waters passed by; The deep uttered its voice, And lifted up its hands on high.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 105:41

    He opened the rock, and waters gushed out; They ran in the dry places like a river.

  • Luke 1:72

    To show mercy towards our fathers, And to remember his holy covenant;

  • Lamentations 2:4

    He hath bent his bow like an enemy, he hath stood with his right hand as an adversary, And hath slain all that were pleasant to the eye: In the tent of the daughter of Zion he hath poured out his wrath like fire.

  • Deuteronomy 32:23

    I will heap evils upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them:

  • Genesis 22:16

    and said, By myself have I sworn, saith Jehovah, because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son,

  • Genesis 17:7

    And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee.