🙏WEB · Habakkuk 3:9
What does Habakkuk 3:9 mean?
"You uncovered your bow. You called for your sworn arrows. Selah. You split the earth with rivers."
— Habakkuk 3:9 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
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.
I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction. The dwellings of the land of Midian trembled.
Was Yahweh displeased with the rivers? Was your anger against the rivers, or your wrath against the sea, that you rode on your horses, on your chariots of salvation?
You uncovered your bow. You called for your sworn arrows. Selah. You split the earth with rivers.
The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.
The sun and moon stood still in the sky, at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.
You marched through the land in wrath. You threshed the nations in anger.
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