Habakkuk 3

The Prayer of Habakkuk

¹A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth.

²O Yahweh, I have heard the report of you;

In the midst of the years, revive it!

³God came from Teman;

His splendor covers the heavens,

⁴And his brightness was like the light;

⁵Before him went Disease,[#The Hebrew term is also the name of a Canaanite deity]

⁶He stood and measured the earth;

Then the mountains of old were shattered;

⁷Under affliction I saw the tents of Cushan;

⁸Was the anger of Yahweh against the rivers?

when you mounted upon your horses,

⁹You laid bare the nakedness of your bow,

¹⁰When the mountains saw you they writhed;

the deep gave its voice;

¹¹Sun and moon stood still in their place;

¹²In fury you marched through the earth;

¹³You went forth for the salvation of your people,

You crushed the head of the house of wickedness,

¹⁴You pierced the head of his warriors with his own arrows;

¹⁵You trampled upon the sea with your horses,

¹⁶I hear and my stomach shakes;

infection enters my bones;

I wait quietly for the day of trouble

¹⁷Though the fig tree does not blossom,

the yield of the olive tree fails,

the flock is cut off from the animal pen,

¹⁸Yet I will rejoice in Yahweh;

¹⁹Yahweh, my Lord, is my strength;

To the choirmaster with stringed instruments.