1Habakkuk's prayer: 3he describeth God's majesty, and wonders wrought in his people's behalf: 17he professeth his unshaken trust in God.
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1A PRAYER of Habakkuk the prophet aupon Shigionoth.
2O Lord, I have heard thy aspeech, and1was afraid: O Lord, brevive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; 2in wrath remember mercy.
31God came from aTeman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. 2His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.
4And his brightness was as the light; he had ahorns coming out of his hand: and there was the 1hiding of his power.
51Before him went the pestilence, and burning acoals went forth at his feet.
6He stood, and 1measured the earth: he beheld, and 2drove asunder the nations; and the 3everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are4everlasting.
7I saw 1the tents of aCushan bin affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
81Was the Lord displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst 2ride upon thine horses andathy chariots of salvation?
9Thy bow 1was made quite naked, according to the 2oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. 3Thou didst cleave athe earth with rivers.
101The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: 2the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
111The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: aat the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.
121Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
13Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation 1with thine anointed; thou 2woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by adiscovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.
141Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they acame out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
151Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the aheap of great waters.
16When I heard, 1my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that 2I might rest in the day of trouble: when 3he cometh up unto the people, he will ainvade them with his troops.
17¶ 1Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall afail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
181Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
19The Lord God is1my strength, and he will make my feet like 2hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk 3upon mine high places. 4To the chief singer on my astringed instruments.