Habakkuk 3

1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigyonoth.

prayer to/for Habakkuk [the] prophet upon Shigionoth

2 O Lord, I have heard thy fame, [and] was afraid: O Lord, thy work—in the midst of the years [of sorrow] revive thou it, in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy.

LORD to hear: hear report your to fear: revere LORD work your in/on/with entrails: among year to live him in/on/with entrails: among year to know in/on/with turmoil to have compassion to remember

3 [When] God from Theman came, and the Holy One from mount Paran, (Selah) his glory covered the heavens, and of his praise the earth was full.

god from Teman to come (in): come and holy from mountain: mount (Mount) Paran (Selah) to cover heaven splendor his and praise his to fill [the] land: country/planet

4 And [his] brightness was like the sunlight; rays streamed forth out of his hand unto them; and there was the hiding of his power.

and brightness like/as light to be horn from hand: power his to/for him and there hiding (strength his *Q(K)*)

5 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth in his steps.

to/for face: before his to go: went pestilence and to come out: come flash to/for foot his

6 He stood forward, and made the earth tremble; he looked and dispersed nations; and there burst asunder the everlasting mountains; there sunk the perpetual hills: the ways of the world are his.

to stand: stand and to shake land: country/planet to see: see and to start nation and to scatter mountain perpetuity to bow hill forever: enduring walk forever: enduring to/for him

7 In affliction I saw the tents of Cushan: they trembled—the curtains of the land of Midian.

underneath: under evil: trouble to see: see tent Cushan to tremble [emph?] curtain land: country/planet Midian

8 Was the Lord wroth against the rivers? yea, was against the rivers thy anger [kindled]? was against the sea thy wrath that thou rodest upon thy horses, thy chariots of victory!

in/on/with river to be incensed LORD if: surely yes in/on/with river face: anger your if in/on/with sea fury your for to ride upon horse your chariot your salvation

9 Laid quite bare is thy bow, like severe rods of punishment [goeth forth] thy word, (Selah) into rivers thou splittest the earth.

nakedness be exposed bow your oath tribe: arrow word (Selah) river to break up/open land: country/planet

10 The mountains saw thee, they trembled; the flowing waters passed along: the deep issued forth its voice, the height lifted up its hands.

to see: see you to twist: dance mountain: mount storm water to pass to give: give abyss voice his hight hand his to lift: raise

11 The sun and moon stood still in their dwelling: at the light of thy arrows they walked along, at the shining of the flaming glitter of thy spear.

sun moon to stand: stand elevation [to] to/for light arrow your to go: walk to/for brightness lightning spear your

12 In indignation thou marchest through the earth, in anger thou treadest down nations.

in/on/with indignation to march land: country/planet in/on/with face: anger to tread nation

13 Thou wentest forth to the assistance of thy people, to the assistance of thy anointed: thou didst wound the head out of the house of the wicked, destroy the foundation with the high-towering walls. (Selah)

to come out: come to/for salvation people your to/for salvation [obj] anointed your to wound head: leader from house: household wicked to uncover foundation till neck (Selah)

14 Thou didst strike through with his own spears the chiefs of his villages, who rushed out furiously to scatter me; who rejoiced greatly as though they were to devour the poor in secret.

to pierce in/on/with tribe: arrow his head (warrior his *Q(K)*) to rage to/for to scatter me exultation their like to/for to eat afflicted in/on/with hiding

15 [But] thou didst pass along over the sea with thy horses, over the piled up billows of great waters.

to tread in/on/with sea horse your heap water many

16 I heard it, and my inmost parts trembled; at the report my lips quivered; rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in my place, that I should rest till the day of distress, till the withdrawing of the people that will invade us with its troops.

to hear: hear and to tremble belly: body my to/for voice: sound to tingle lips my to come (in): come rottenness in/on/with bone my and underneath: under me to tremble which to rest to/for day distress to/for to ascend: rise to/for people to raid him

17 For the fig-tree doth not bud, and no fruit is on the vines; the productiveness of the olive deceiveth, and the fields yield no food; from the fold the flocks are cut off, and there are no herds in the stalls.

for fig not to sprout and nothing crops in/on/with vine to deceive deed: work olive and field not to make: do food to cut from fold flock and nothing cattle in/on/with stall

18 Yet will I rejoice in the Lord, I will exult in the God of my salvation.

and I in/on/with LORD to exult to rejoice in/on/with God salvation my

19 The Lord Eternal is my strength, and he maketh my feet fleet as those of the hinds, and he will cause me to tread upon my high places. To the chief musician of my songs.

(YHWH/God *L(abh)*) Lord strength my and to set: make foot my like/as doe and upon high place my to tread me to/for to conduct in/on/with music my