Habakkuk 3:9 Parallel Translations

You get your bow ready for action, for the arrows you promised. Selah You split the land with rivers.(GOD'S WORD®)

Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.

ASV:

Thy bow was made quite bare; The oaths to the tribes were a'sure word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.

BBE:

Your bow was quite uncovered. Selah. By you the earth was cut through with rivers.

DBY:

Thy bow was made naked, The rods of discipline sworn according to thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.

ERV:

Thy bow was made quite bare; the oaths to the tribes were a sure word. Selah Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.

JPS:

Thy bow is made quite bare; sworn are the rods of the word. Selah. Thou dost cleave the earth with rivers.

WBS:

Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.

WEB:

You uncovered your bow. You called for your sworn arrows. Selah. You split the earth with rivers.

YLT:

Utterly naked Thou dost make Thy bow, Sworn are the tribes -- saying, 'Pause!' With rivers Thou dost cleave the earth.

Habakkuk 3:9 Cross References

XREF:

Psalm 7:12 If a man does not repent, He will sharpen His sword; He has bent His bow and made it ready.

Psalm 7:13 He has also prepared for Himself deadly weapons; He makes His arrows fiery shafts.

Psalm 78:16 He brought forth streams also from the rock And caused waters to run down like rivers.

Psalm 105:41 He opened the rock and water flowed out; It ran in the dry places like a river.

Habakkuk 3:11 Sun and moon stood in their places; They went away at the light of Your arrows, At the radiance of Your gleaming spear. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

3:9 Thy {k} bow was made quite naked, [according] to the {l} oaths of the tribes, [even thy] word. Selah. Thou {m} didst cleave the earth with rivers.
(k) That is, your power.
(l) For he had not only made a covenant with Abraham, but renewed it with his posterity.
(m) Read Nu 20:11.

WES:

3:9 Thy bow - One part of armour is put for the whole. The Lord is represented as armed, in readiness to smite through all his enemies. According to the oaths - In pursuance of his oath made to our fathers, and their posterity. Cleave the earth - When they were to march through a dry and thirsty land.

MHC:

3:3-15 God's people, when in distress, and ready to despair, seek help by considering the days of old, and the years of ancient times, and by pleading them with God in prayer. The resemblance between the Babylonish and Egyptian captivities, naturally presents itself to the mind, as well as the possibility of a like deliverance through the power of Jehovah. God appeared in his glory. All the powers of nature are shaken, and the course of nature changed, but all is for the salvation of God's own people. Even what seems least likely, shall be made to work for their salvation. Hereby is given a type and figure of the redemption of the world by Jesus Christ. It is for salvation with thine anointed. Joshua who led the armies of Israel, was a figure of Him whose name he bare, even Jesus, our Joshua. In all the salvations wrought for them, God looked upon Christ the Anointed, and brought deliverances to pass by him. All the wonders done for Israel of old, were nothing to that which was done when the Son of God suffered on the cross for the sins of his people. How glorious his resurrection and ascension! And how much more glorious will be his second coming, to put an end to all that opposes him, and all that causes suffering to his people!

CONC:

Arrows Bare Bow Chastisement Cleave Cleaved Cut Discipline Naked Oaths Pause Quite Rivers Rods Saying Selah Sheath Split String Strip Sure Sworn Tribes Uncovered Utterly

Arrows Bare Bow Chastisement Cleave Cleaved Cut Earth Naked Oaths Pause Quite Rivers Rods Selah Sheath Split String Strip Sure Sworn Tribes Uncovered Utterly Word

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