Habakkuk 3:10
New International Version
the mountains saw you and writhed. Torrents of water swept by; the deep roared and lifted its waves on high.

New Living Translation
The mountains watched and trembled. Onward swept the raging waters. The mighty deep cried out, lifting its hands in submission.

English Standard Version
The mountains saw you and writhed; the raging waters swept on; the deep gave forth its voice; it lifted its hands on high.

Berean Standard Bible
The mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high.

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
The mountains saw You and trembled; The overflowing of the water passed by. The deep uttered its voice, And lifted its hands on high.

New American Standard Bible
The mountains saw You and quaked; The downpour of waters swept by. The deep raised its voice, It lifted high its hands.

NASB 1995
The mountains saw You and quaked; The downpour of waters swept by. The deep uttered forth its voice, It lifted high its hands.

NASB 1977
The mountains saw Thee and quaked; The downpour of waters swept by. The deep uttered forth its voice, It lifted high its hands.

Legacy Standard Bible
The mountains saw You and writhed; The downpour of waters passed by. The deep gave forth its voice; It lifted high its hands.

Amplified Bible
The mountains saw You and [they] trembled and writhed [as if in pain]; The downpour of waters swept by [as a deluge]. The deep uttered its voice and raged, It lifted its hands high.

Christian Standard Bible
The mountains see you and shudder; a downpour of water sweeps by. The deep roars with its voice and lifts its waves high.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The mountains see You and shudder; a downpour of water sweeps by. The deep roars with its voice and lifts its waves high.

American Standard Version
The mountains saw thee, and were afraid; The tempest of waters passed by; The deep uttered its voice, And lifted up its hands on high.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The mountains saw you and they shook, and a downpour of waters passed through, and the deep up lifted its voice and lifted its hands up high!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The nations shall see thee and be in pain, as thou dost divide the moving waters: the deep uttered her voice, and raised her form on high.

Contemporary English Version
mountains trembled at the sight of you; rain poured from the clouds; ocean waves roared and rose.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The mountains saw thee, and were grieved: the great body of waters passed away. The deep put forth its voice: the deep lifted up its hands.

English Revised Version
The mountains saw thee, and were afraid; the tempest of waters passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The mountains look at you. They writhe in pain. Floodwaters pass by. The deep ocean roars. Its waves rise up high.

Good News Translation
When the mountains saw you, they trembled; water poured down from the skies. The waters under the earth roared, and their waves rose high.

International Standard Version
When the mountains looked upon you, they trembled; the overflowing water passed by, the ocean shouted, and its waves surged upward.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The mountains have seen Thee, and they tremble; The tempest of waters floweth over; the deep uttereth its voice, And lifteth up its hands on high.

Literal Standard Version
Seen You—pained are mountains, | An inundation of waters has passed over, | The deep has given forth its voice, | It has lifted up its hands high.

Majority Standard Bible
The mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high.

New American Bible
at the sight of you the mountains writhed. The clouds poured down water; the deep roared loudly. The sun forgot to rise,

NET Bible
When the mountains see you, they shake. The torrential downpour sweeps through. The great deep shouts out; it lifts its hands high.

New Revised Standard Version
The mountains saw you, and writhed; a torrent of water swept by; the deep gave forth its voice. The sun raised high its hands;

New Heart English Bible
The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.

Young's Literal Translation
Seen thee -- pained are mountains, An inundation of waters hath passed over, Given forth hath the deep its voice, High its hands it hath lifted up.

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Context
Habakkuk's Prayer
9You brandished Your bow; You called for many arrows. Selah You split the earth with rivers. 10The mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high. 11Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.…

Cross References
Matthew 8:24
Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat was engulfed by the waves; but Jesus was sleeping.

Psalm 77:16
The waters saw You, O God; the waters saw You and swirled; even the depths were shaken.

Psalm 93:3
The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.

Psalm 98:7
Let the sea resound, and all that fills it, the world, and all who dwell in it.

Psalm 98:8
Let the rivers clap their hands, let the mountains sing together for joy

Psalm 104:32
He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smolder.

Psalm 148:7
Praise the LORD from the earth, all great sea creatures and ocean depths,


Treasury of Scripture

The mountains saw you, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.

mountains.

Habakkuk 3:6
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.

Exodus 19:16-18
And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled…

Judges 5:4,5
LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water…

the overflowing.

Exodus 14:22-28
And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left…

Joshua 3:15,16
And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,) …

Joshua 4:18,23,24
And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up unto the dry land, that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all his banks, as they did before…

the deep.

Psalm 65:13
The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.

Psalm 93:3
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.

Psalm 96:11-13
Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof…

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Habakkuk 3
1. Habakkuk, in his prayer, trembles at God's majesty.
17. The confidence of his faith.














(10-18) All the verbs in these verses are misrendered as regards tense. (See note on 3-15.)

(10) The mountains saw thee.--The earthquake at Sinai and the dividing of the Red Sea, the waters of which were lifted up "as a wall on the right hand and on the left" of Israel, lie at the basis of this description. This imagery, however, of sweeping floods and quaking mountains is usual in poetical accounts of Divine interposition.

Verse 10. - The mountains saw thee, and they trembled; literally, were in pain, Septuagint, ὠδινήσουσι. The words point to the phenomena of an earthquake, as Sinai shook at the presence of the Lord (Exodus 19:18; Psalm 114:6). So Virgil, 'AEn.,' 6:256 -

"Sub pedibus mugire solum, et juga coepta moveri
Silvarum... Adventante des."
For "mountains," the LXX. reads, "peoples" The overflowing of the water passed by; the talent of water passed along. Cataracts of rain fell, as in the Deluge. "The windows on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake" (Isaiah 24:18). Those who confine the reference to past events see here an intimation of the passage of the Jordan (Joshua 3:15, 16). The deep uttered his voice. The mass of waters in the ocean and under the earth rears mightily as it bursts forth (Genesis 49:25; Deuteronomy 33:13). His hands. Its waves (Psalm 98:8). Septuagint, ὕψος φαντασίας αὐτῆς, "the height of its form."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The mountains
הָרִ֔ים (hā·rîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 2022: Mountain, hill, hill country

saw You
רָא֤וּךָ (rā·’ū·ḵā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural | second person masculine singular
Strong's 7200: To see

[and] quaked;
יָחִ֙ילוּ֙ (yā·ḥî·lū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 2342: To twist, whirl, to dance, to writhe in pain, fear, to wait, to pervert

torrents
זֶ֥רֶם (ze·rem)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 2230: A flood of rain, rainstorm, downpour

of water
מַ֖יִם (ma·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

swept by.
עָבָ֑ר (‘ā·ḇār)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5674: To pass over, through, or by, pass on

The deep
תְּהוֹם֙ (tə·hō·wm)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 8415: An abyss, the deep

roared
נָתַ֤ן (nā·ṯan)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

with its voice
קוֹל֔וֹ (qō·w·lōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6963: A voice, sound

and lifted
נָשָֽׂא׃ (nā·śā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take

its hands
יָדֵ֥יהוּ (yā·ḏê·hū)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3027: A hand

on high.
ר֖וֹם (rō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7315: Elevation, aloft


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