< Habakkuk 3 >

1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, [set] on shigionoth:
prayer to/for Habakkuk [the] prophet upon Shigionoth
2 O YHWH, I heard your report, I have been afraid, O YHWH, Your work! In midst of years revive it, In the midst of years You make known, In anger You 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 God comes from Teman, The Holy One from Mount Paran. (Pause) His splendor has covered the heavens, And His praise has filled the earth.
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 the brightness is as the light, He has rays out of His hand, And there—the hiding of His strength.
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 goes pestilence, And a burning flame goes forth at His feet.
to/for face: before his to go: went pestilence and to come out: come flash to/for foot his
6 He has stood, and He measures earth, He has seen, and He shakes off nations, And mountains of antiquity scatter themselves, The hills of old have bowed, The ways of old [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 Under sorrow I have seen tents of Cushan, Curtains of the land of Midian tremble.
underneath: under evil: trouble to see: see tent Cushan to tremble [emph?] curtain land: country/planet Midian
8 Has YHWH been angry against rivers? Against rivers [is] Your anger? [Is] Your wrath against the sea? For You ride on Your horses—Your chariots of salvation.
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 You make Your bow utterly naked, The tribes have sworn, saying, (Pause) You cleave the earth [with] rivers.
nakedness be exposed bow your oath tribe: arrow word (Selah) river to break up/open land: country/planet
10 Seen You—pained are mountains, An inundation of waters has passed over, The deep has given forth its voice, It has lifted up its hands high.
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 Sun—moon—has stood—a habitation, Your arrows go on at the light, At the brightness, the glittering of Your 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 You tread earth, In anger You thresh nations.
in/on/with indignation to march land: country/planet in/on/with face: anger to tread nation
13 You have gone forth for the salvation of Your people, For salvation with Your Anointed, You have struck the head of the house of the wicked, Laying bare the foundation to the neck. (Pause)
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 You have pierced the head of his leaders with his own rods, They are tempestuous to scatter me, Their exultation [is] as to consume 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 You have proceeded through the sea with Your horses—the clay of many waters.
to tread in/on/with sea horse your heap water many
16 I have heard, and my belly trembles, At the noise have my lips quivered, Rottenness comes into my bones, And in my place I tremble, That I rest for a day of distress, At the coming up of the people, he overcomes it.
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 Though the fig tree does not flourish, And there is no produce among vines, The work of the olive has failed, And fields have not yielded food, The flock has been cut off from the fold, And there is no herd 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 I, in YHWH I exult, I am joyful in the God of my salvation.
and I in/on/with LORD to exult to rejoice in/on/with God salvation my
19 YHWH the Lord [is] my strength, And He makes my feet like does, And causes me to tread on my high-places. To the overseer with my stringed instruments!
(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

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