Habakkuk 3

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¹The prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet, for unknowing men.

²Lord, I heard thy praising, and I dreaded; Lord, it is thy work, in the middle of years, quicken thou it. In the middle of years, thou shalt make thyself known; when thou shalt be wroth, thou shalt have mind of mercy.

³God shall come from the south, and the Holy from the mount of Paran. The glory of him covered heavens, and the earth is full of his praising.

⁴The shining of him shall be as light; with horns in the hands of him. There the strength of him was hid,

⁵death shall go before his face; the devil shall go out before his feet.

⁶He stood, and meted the earth; he beheld, and unbound folks, and hills of the world were all-broken; the little hills of the world were bowed down, of the ways of his everlastingness.

⁷For wickedness I saw the tents of Ethiopia, the skins of the land of Midian shall be troubled.

⁸Lord, whether in floods thou art wroth, either in floods is thy strong vengeance, either in the sea is thine indignation? Which shalt ascend or go up on thine horses; and on thy four-horsed carts is salvation.

⁹Thou raising shalt raise thy bow, oaths to lineages which thou hast spoken; thou shalt part the floods of earth.

¹⁰Waters saw thee, and hills sorrowed, the gutter of waters passed; deepness gave his voice, highness raised his hands.

¹¹The sun and moon stood in their dwelling place; in the light of thine arrows they shall go, in the shining of thy spear glistening.

¹²In gnashing thou shalt defoul earth, and in strong vengeance thou shalt astonish folks.

¹³Thou art gone out into health of thy people, into health with thy christ or thine anointed; thou hast smitten the head of the house of the unpious man, thou hast made naked the foundament till to the neck.

¹⁴Thou cursedest the sceptre, either power, of him, the head of his fighters, to men coming as whirlwind for to scatter me; thou heardest the joying withoutforth of them, as of him that devoureth a poor man in huddles.

¹⁵Thou madest a way in the sea to thine horses, in clay of many waters.

¹⁶I heard, and my womb is troubled altogether; my lips trembled altogether of the voice. Rot entered into my bones, and sprang under me; that I rest again in the day of tribulation, and I shall go up to our people girded altogether.

¹⁷For the fig tree shall not flower, and burgeoning shall not be in vineyards; the work of the olive tree shall lie down, and fields shall not bring forth meat; a sheep shall be cut away from the fold, a drove shall not be in cratches.

¹⁸Forsooth I shall have joy in the Lord, and I shall make joy without-forth in God my Jesus or my salvation.

¹⁹God the Lord is my strength, and he shall put my feet as of harts; and up on mine high things, the over-comer shall lead forth me, singing in psalms.