1 GLT The prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth. BSB BSB: This is a prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth:
2 GLT Yahweh, I have heard your report, and I fear. O Yahweh, revive your work in the midst of the years; in the midst of the years make it known; remember to have compassion in your wrath. BSB BSB: O LORD, I have heard the report of You; I stand in awe, O LORD, of Your deeds. Revive them in these years; make them known in these years. In Your wrath, remember mercy!
4 GLT His brightness was like the light; rays flashed from his hand; and there he hid his power. BSB BSB: His radiance was like the sunlight; rays flashed from His hand, where His power is hidden.
5 GLT Deadly disease went before him, and the plague followed at his heels. BSB BSB: Plague went before Him, and fever followed in His steps.
6 GLT He stood and measured the earth; he looked and made the nations tremble. Even the eternal mountains were shattered, and the everlasting hills bowed down. His ways are everlasting. BSB BSB: He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.
7 GLT I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction, and the tent curtains in the land of Midian trembling. BSB BSB: I saw the tents of Cushan in distress; the curtains of Midian were trembling.
8 GLT Was your wrath against the rivers, O Yahweh? Was your anger against the rivers, or your fury against the sea, when you rode upon your horses and your victorious chariots? BSB BSB: Were You angry at the rivers, O LORD? Was Your wrath against the streams? Did You rage against the sea when You rode on Your horses, on Your chariots of salvation?
9 GLT You removed the sheath from your bow; you called for many arrows! Selah. You split the earth with rivers. BSB BSB: You brandished Your bow; You called for many arrows. Selah You split the earth with rivers.
10 GLT The mountains saw you and twisted in pain. Downpours of water passed over them; the deep sea raised its voice. It lifted up its waves on high. BSB BSB: The mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high.
11 GLT The sun and moon stood still in their high places at the light of your arrows as they fly, at the gleam of your flashing spear. BSB BSB: Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.
12 GLT You have marched over the earth with indignation. In anger you have threshed the nations. BSB BSB: You marched across the earth with fury; You threshed the nations in wrath.
13 GLT You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed one. You crush the head of the house of the wicked to lay him bare from the thigh up to the neck. Selah BSB BSB: You went forth for the salvation of Your people, to save Your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of the wicked and stripped him from head to toe. Selah
14 GLT You have pierced the head of his warriors with his own arrows since they came like a storm to scatter us, their gloating was like one who devours the afflicted in a hiding place. BSB BSB: With his own spear You pierced his head, when his warriors stormed out to scatter us, gloating as though ready to secretly devour the weak.
15 GLT You have trampled on the sea with your horses, on the surge of the great waters. BSB BSB: You trampled the sea with Your horses, churning the great waters.
16 GLT I heard, and my inner parts trembled! My lips quivered at the sound. Decay enters into my bones, and my legs tremble beneath me Yet I will wait quietly for the day of distress to come upon the people who invade us. BSB BSB: I heard and trembled within; my lips quivered at the sound. Decay entered my bones; I trembled where I stood. Yet I must wait patiently for the day of distress to come upon the people who invade us.
17 GLT Though the fig tree does not bud and there is no fruit on the vines; and though the produce of the olive tree fails and the fields yield no food; and though the flock is cut off from the fold and there are no cattle in the stalls, BSB BSB: Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,
18 GLT yet, I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful because of the God of my salvation. BSB BSB: yet I will exult in the LORD; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!
19 GLT The Lord Yahweh is my strength and he makes my feet like the feet of a deer. He makes me tread on my high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments. BSB BSB: GOD the Lord is my strength; He makes my feet like those of a deer; He makes me walk upon the heights! For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments.