KJV King James Version
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.
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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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His glory covered the heavens, and His praise filled the earth.
WEB World English Bible
God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.
ASV American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
God from Teman doth come, The Holy One from mount Paran. Pause! Covered the heavens hath His majesty, And His praise hath filled the earth.
Surrounding context — Habakkuk 3
1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.
2 O LORD, I have heard thy speech, [and] was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.
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.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
אֱל֙וֹהַ֙H433 · e.lo.ahgodמִתֵּימָ֣ןH8487 · te.manTemanיָב֔וֹאH935 · boto come (in): comeוְקָד֥וֹשׁH6918 · qa.doshholyמֵֽהַר־H2022 · harmountain: mountפָּארָ֖ןH6290 · pa.ranParanסֶ֑לָהH5542 · se.lahSelahכִּסָּ֤הH3680 · ka.sahto coverשָׁמַ֙יִם֙H8064 · sha.ma.yimheavenהוֹד֔וֹH1935 · hodsplendorוּתְהִלָּת֖וֹH8416 · te.hil.lahpraiseמָלְאָ֥הH4390 · ma.leto fillהָאָֽרֶץ׃H776 · e.retsland: country/planet
Cross-references
Deuteronomy 33:2And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand [went] a fiery law for them.Obadiah 1:9And thy mighty [men], O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.Psalm 4:4Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.Amos 1:12But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.Jeremiah 49:7Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; [Is] wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?Isaiah 6:3And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, [is] the LORD of hosts: the whole earth [is] full of his glory.Revelation 5:13-14And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, [be] unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.Psalm 68:17The chariots of God [are] twenty thousand, [even] thousands of angels: the Lord [is] among them, [as in] Sinai, in the holy [place].Genesis 21:21And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.Judges 5:4-5LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.Exodus 19:16-20And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that [was] in the camp trembled.Deuteronomy 5:24And ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth.Isaiah 64:3When thou didst terrible things [which] we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.Psalm 3:4I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.Exodus 24:15-17And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.Psalm 9:20Put them in fear, O LORD: [that] the nations may know themselves [to be but] men. Selah.Psalm 114:3-7The sea saw [it], and fled: Jordan was driven back.Psalm 68:7-8O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:
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