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Habakkuk 3

Habakkuk's prayer recalls God's great acts of rescue in the past. Then he makes a remarkable confession: even if the fig tree does not blossom, the crops fail and the stalls are empty, he will still rejoice in the LORD, who is his strength.

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Key verses

  • Verse 2A prayer for God to act again in our time.
  • Verse 17Even if everything fails...
  • Verse 18...he will still rejoice in God.

A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.SelectedHabakkuk 3:1Ask

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.SelectedHabakkuk 3:2Ask

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.SelectedHabakkuk 3:3Ask

And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.SelectedHabakkuk 3:4Ask

Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.SelectedHabakkuk 3:5Ask

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.SelectedHabakkuk 3:6Ask

I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.SelectedHabakkuk 3:7Ask

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?SelectedHabakkuk 3:8Ask

Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.SelectedHabakkuk 3:9Ask

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.SelectedHabakkuk 3:10Ask

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.SelectedHabakkuk 3:11Ask

Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.SelectedHabakkuk 3:12Ask

Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.SelectedHabakkuk 3:13Ask

Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.SelectedHabakkuk 3:14Ask

Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters.SelectedHabakkuk 3:15Ask

When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.SelectedHabakkuk 3:16Ask

Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:SelectedHabakkuk 3:17Ask

Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.SelectedHabakkuk 3:18Ask

The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.SelectedHabakkuk 3:19Ask

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