KJV King James Version
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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Habakkuk 3:9
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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BSB Berean Standard Bible
You brandished Your bow; You called for many arrows. Selah You split the earth with rivers.
WEB World English Bible
You uncovered your bow. You called for your sworn arrows. Selah. You split the earth with rivers.
ASV American Standard Version
Thy bow was made quite bare; The oaths to the tribes were a sure word. [Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Utterly naked Thou dost make Thy bow, Sworn are the tribes—saying, ‘Pause!’ With rivers Thou dost cleave the earth.
Surrounding context — 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.
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.
10 The 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.
11 The sun [and] moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, [and] at the shining of thy glittering spear.
12 Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
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עֶרְיָ֤הH6181 · er.yahnakednessתֵעוֹר֙H5783 · urbe exposedקַשְׁתֶּ֔ךָH7198 · qe.shetbowשְׁבֻע֥וֹתH7621 · she.vu.ahoathמַטּ֖וֹתH4294 · mat.tehtribe: rodאֹ֣מֶרH562 · o.merwordסֶ֑לָהH5542 · se.lahSelahנְהָר֖וֹתH5104 · na.harRiverתְּבַקַּע־H1234 · ba.qato break up/openאָֽרֶץ׃H776 · e.retsland: country/planet
Cross-references
Psalm 7:12-13If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.Psalm 105:41He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places [like] a river.Psalm 78:15-16He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as [out of] the great depths.Luke 1:72-75To perform the mercy [promised] to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;Psalm 143:6I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul [thirsteth] after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.Hebrews 6:13-18For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,Isaiah 52:10The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.1 Corinthians 10:4And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.Lamentations 2:4He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all [that were] pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.Exodus 17:6Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.Deuteronomy 32:23I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.Isaiah 51:9-10Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. [Art] thou not it that hath cut Rahab, [and] wounded the dragon?Psalm 105:8-11He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word [which] he commanded to a thousand generations.Numbers 20:11And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts [also].Genesis 28:13-14And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I [am] the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;Genesis 22:16-18And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only [son]:Genesis 17:7-8And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.Genesis 15:18-21In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
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