KJV King James Version
He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways [are] everlasting.
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Habakkuk 3:6
He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways [are] everlasting.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.
WEB World English Bible
He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal.
ASV American Standard Version
He stood, and measured the earth; He beheld, and drove asunder the nations; And the eternal mountains were scattered; The everlasting hills did bow; His goings were as of old.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
He hath stood, and He measureth earth, He hath seen, and He shaketh off nations, And scatter themselves do mountains of antiquity, Bowed have the hills of old, The ways of old are His.
Surrounding context — Habakkuk 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.
4 And [his] brightness was as the light; he had horns [coming] out of his hand: and there [was] the hiding of his power.
5 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.
6 He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways [are] everlasting.
7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: [and] the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
8 Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? [was] thine anger against the rivers? [was] thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses [and] thy chariots of salvation?
9 Thy bow was made quite naked, [according] to the oaths of the tribes, [even thy] word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
עָמַ֣ד׀H5975 · a.madto stand: standוַיְמֹ֣דֶדH4128 · mudto shakeאֶ֗רֶץH776 · e.retsland: country/planetרָאָה֙H7200 · ra.ahto see: seeוַיַּתֵּ֣רH5425 · na.tarto startגּוֹיִ֔םH1471 · goynationוַיִּתְפֹּֽצְצוּ֙H6327 · putsto scatterהַרְרֵי־H2042 · ha.rarmountainעַ֔דH5703 · adperpetuityשַׁח֖וּH7817 · sha.chachto bowגִּבְע֣וֹתH1389 · giv.ahGibeath-(elohim)עוֹלָ֑םH5769 · o.lamforever: enduringהֲלִיכ֥וֹתH1979 · ha.li.khahwalkעוֹלָ֖םH5769 · o.lamforever: enduringלֽוֹ׃H9033 · ohim
Cross-references
Genesis 49:26The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.Nahum 1:5The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.Deuteronomy 33:15And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills,Zechariah 14:4-5And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which [is] before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, [and there shall be] a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.Isaiah 64:1-3Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,Joshua 11:18-23Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.Isaiah 51:6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.Micah 5:8And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.Nehemiah 9:22-24Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.Judges 5:5The mountains melted from before the LORD, [even] that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.Psalm 103:17But the mercy of the LORD [is] from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;Isaiah 51:8For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.Psalm 90:2Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou [art] God.Luke 1:50And his mercy [is] on them that fear him from generation to generation.Numbers 34:1-29And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,Psalm 114:4-7The mountains skipped like rams, [and] the little hills like lambs.Habakkuk 3:10The mountains saw thee, [and] they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, [and] lifted up his hands on high.Psalm 68:16Why leap ye, ye high hills? [this is] the hill [which] God desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell [in it] for ever.
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