3:1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, set to Shigionoth.
3:2 O Jehovah, I have heard the report of thee, and am afraid: O Jehovah, revive thy work in the midst of the years; In the midst of the years make it known; In wrath remember mercy.
3:3 God came from Teman, And the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, And the earth was full of his praise.
3:4 And [his] brightness was as the light; He had rays [coming forth] from his hand; And there was the hiding of his power.
3:6 He stood, and measured the earth; He beheld, and drove asunder the nations; And the eternalmountains were scattered; The everlastinghills did bow; His goings were [as] of old.
3:7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction; The curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
3:14 Thou didst pierce with his own staves the head of his warriors: They came as a whirlwind to scatter me; Their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
3:15 Thou didst tread the sea with thy horses, The heap of mighty waters.
3:16 I heard, and my body trembled, My lips quivered at the voice; Rottenness entereth into my bones, and I tremble in my place; Because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, For the coming up of the people that invadeth us.
3:17 For though the fig-tree shall not flourish, Neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labor of the olive shall fail, And the fields shall yield no food; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, And there shall be no herd in the stalls: