Habakkuk 3:9-19

9 Your ¹bow was made bare *, The rods of chastisement were sworn. Selah. You ²cleaved the earth with rivers.

10 The mountains saw You and quaked; The downpour of waters swept by. The deep ³uttered forth its voice, It lifted high its hands.

11 ⁴Sun and moon stood in their places; They went away at the ⁵light of Your arrows, At the radiance of Your gleaming spear.

12 In indignation You ⁶marched through the earth; In anger You ⁷trampled the nations.

13 You went forth for the ⁸salvation of Your people, For the salvation of Your ⁹anointed. You struck the ¹⁰head of the house of the evil To lay him open from thigh to neck. Selah.

14 You pierced with his ¹¹own spears The head of his throngs. They ¹²stormed in to scatter us; Their exultation was like those Who ¹³devour the oppressed in secret.

15 You ¹⁴trampled on the sea with Your horses, On the ¹⁵surge of many waters.

16 I heard and my inward parts ¹⁶trembled, At the sound my lips quivered. Decay enters my ¹⁷bones, And in my place I tremble. Because I must ¹⁸wait quietly for the day of distress, For the ¹⁹people to arise who will invade us.

17 Though the ²⁰fig tree should not blossom And there be no fruit on the vines, Though the yield of the ²¹olive should fail And the fields produce no food, Though the ²²flock should be cut off from the fold And there be ²³no cattle in the stalls,

18 Yet I will ²⁴exult in the LORD, I will ²⁵rejoice in the ²⁶God of my salvation.

19 The Lord GOD is my ²⁷strength, And ²⁸He has made my feet like hinds' feet, And makes me walk on my ²⁹high places. For the choir director, on my stringed instruments.

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Habakkuk 3:9-19 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO HABAKKUK 3

The title of this chapter is a prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, composed after the manner of a psalm of David, and directed to the chief singer, Hab 3:1,19. The occasion of it is expressed, Hab 3:2 in which the prophet declares his concern for the work of the Lord, and the promotion of the kingdom and interest of Christ; and observes the various steps that were, or would be, taken for the advancement of it; for which he prays, and suggests that these would be after the manner of the Lord's dealing with the people of Israel, and settling them in the land of Canaan, Hab 3:3-15 and there being several things awful in this account, both with respect to the judgments of God on his enemies, and the conflicts and trials of his own people, it greatly affected the mind of the prophet, Hab 3:16 and yet, in the view of the worst, he expresses his strong faith in the Lord, as to better times and things, that would most assuredly come, Hab 3:17-19.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 29

1. Psalms 7:12, 13; Habakkuk 3:11
2. Psalms 78:16; Psalms 105:41
3. Psalms 93:3; Psalms 98:7, 8
4. Joshua 10:12-14
5. Psalms 18:14
6. Psalms 68:7
7. Isaiah 41:15; Jeremiah 51:33; Micah 4:13
8. Exodus 15:2; 2 Samuel 5:20; Psalms 68:19, 20
9. Psalms 20:6; Psalms 28:8
10. Psalms 68:21; Psalms 110:6
11. Judges 7:22
12. Daniel 11:40; Zechariah 9:14
13. Psalms 10:8; Psalms 64:2-5
14. Psalms 77:19; Habakkuk 3:8
15. Exodus 15:8
16. Daniel 10:8; Habakkuk 3:2
17. Job 30:17, 30; Jeremiah 23:9
18. Luke 21:19
19. Jeremiah 5:15
20. Joel 1:10-12; Amos 4:9; 2 Corinthians 4:8, 9
21. Micah 6:15
22. Joel 1:18
23. Jeremiah 5:17
24. Exodus 15:1, 2; Job 13:15; Isaiah 61:10; Romans 5:2, 3
25. Psalms 46:1-5; Philippians 4:4
26. Psalms 25:5; Psalms 27:1; Isaiah 12:2
27. Psalms 18:32, 33; Psalms 27:1; Psalms 46:1; Isaiah 45:24
28. 2 Samuel 22:34
29. Deuteronomy 33:29

Footnotes 10

[a]. Lit "word"
[b]. Or "thresh"
[c]. Lit "foundation"
[d]. Lit "shafts"
[e]. Or "warriors" or "villagers"
[f]. Lit "me"
[g]. Lit "belly"
[h]. Or "To come upon the people" who "will"
[i]. Lit "produce"
[j]. Heb "YHWH," usually rendered LORD