Habakkuk 3
3:1The prayer of Habakkuk the prophet with an ode.
3:2O lord, I listened to your report, and I feared. O lord, I contemplated your works, and was startled. In the midst of the two living creatures you shall be known; in the approaching of the years you shall be recognized; in the time at hand you shall be made manifest when my soul is disturbed; in wrath you shall remember mercy.
3:3God shall come from out of Teman, even the holy one from out of the mount of the shady Paran. PAUSE. His virtue covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.
3:4And his brightness will be as light, and horns in his hands. And he established a strong affection by his strength.
3:5Before his face shall go a word, and it shall go forth for a flat ground.
3:6At his feet the earth stood and shook; he looked and nations melted; the mountains were broke through by force; the eternal hills melted away -- his eternal ways.
3:7I beheld the tents of Ethiopians in troubles, and the tents of the land of Midian shall be disturbed.
3:8Were you provoked to anger at the rivers, O lord, or was your rage at the rivers, or was your impulse at the sea? The one riding upon your horses, and your riding is deliverance.
3:9Stretching out, you shall stretch out your bow against the chiefdoms, says the lord. PAUSE. The land of rivers shall be torn.
3:10They saw you, and peoples shall travail. You shall disperse waters of the coursing. The abyss gave out her voice -- the height of his visible display.
3:11The sun was exalted, and the moon stood in her order. At the light of your arrows they shall go forth, and your weapons in brightness of lightning.
3:12By intimidation you shall make the land few, and in rage you shall break nations.
3:13You came forth for deliverance of your people, to deliver your anointed one. You threw death onto the heads of lawless ones; For the completion you rose bonds unto the neck.
3:14You cut heads of mighty ones for astonishment; they shall shake in it; they shall open wide their bridles as the poor eating in private. You divided into parts in stupefaction the heads of the mighty. They shall shake in it. They shall open their reins as the poor chewing in concealment.
3:15And you conducted your horses into the sea, disturbing great waters.
3:16I watched, and my belly was terrified from the sound of the prayer of my lips; and trembling entered into my bones, and my part beneath. My manner was disturbed. I will rest in a day of my affliction for me to ascend to the people of my sojourn.
3:17For though the fig-tree shall not bear fruit, and there shall not be produce on the grapevines; and the work of the olive shall lie, and the plains shall not produce food, and sheep cease from having food, and the oxen shall not exist at the stables;
3:18yet I shall exult in the lord; I will rejoice over God my deliverer.
3:19The lord God is my power, and he will arrange my feet unto completion; and upon the high places he shall set me, for me to overcome by his ode.