Habakkuk 3
- 1A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet on Shigionoth.
- 2O Lord, I have heard your speech, and was afraid: O Lord, revive your work in the middle of the years, in the middle of the years make known. In wrath remember mercy.
- 3God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.
- 4And his brightness was as the light. He had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
- 5Before him went the plague, and burning coals went out at his feet.
- 6He stood, and measured the earth: he saw, and drove apart the nations. And the everlasting mountains were scattered, the lasting hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
- 7I saw the tents of Cushan in suffering: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
- 8Was the Lord displeased against the rivers? Was your anger against the rivers? Was your wrath against the sea, that you rode on your horses and your chariots of salvation?
- 9Your bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even your word. Selah. You did split the earth with rivers.
- 10The mountains saw you, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep raised his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
- 11The sun and moon stood still in their home: at the light of your arrows they went, and at the shining of your glittering spear.
- 12You marched through the land in anger, you threshed the nations in anger.
- 13You went out for the salvation of your people, even for salvation with your anointed. You wounded the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation to the neck. Selah.
- 14You pierced with his own spears the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
- 15You did walk through the sea with your horses, through the heap of great waters.
- 16When I heard, my belly trembled. My lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, I might rest in the day of trouble: when he comes up to the people, he will invade them with his troops.
- 17Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines, the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no food, the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls,
- 18Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
- 19The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like a doe's feet, and he will make me to walk on my high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.
What changed from the KJV
GIGAKJV is a modern English revision of the King James Version. The comparison below uses the project's KJV text in the later 1769 tradition and marks, word by word, each verse of Habakkuk 3 where the wording differs: struck-through words are the KJV's, highlighted words are GIGAKJV's.
KJVA prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.
GIGAKJVA prayer of Habakkuk the prophet on Shigionoth.
KJVO 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.
GIGAKJVO Lord, I have heard your speech, and was afraid: O Lord, revive your work in the middle of the years, in the middle of the years make known. In wrath remember mercy.
KJVAnd his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
GIGAKJVAnd his brightness was as the light. He had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
KJVBefore him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.
GIGAKJVBefore him went the plague, and burning coals went out at his feet.
KJVHe 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.
GIGAKJVHe stood, and measured the earth: he saw, and drove apart the nations. And the everlasting mountains were scattered, the lasting hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
KJVI saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
GIGAKJVI saw the tents of Cushan in suffering: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
KJVWas 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?
GIGAKJVWas the Lord displeased against the rivers? Was your anger against the rivers? Was your wrath against the sea, that you rode on your horses and your chariots of salvation?
KJVThy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
GIGAKJVYour bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even your word. Selah. You did split the earth with rivers.
KJVThe 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.
GIGAKJVThe mountains saw you, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep raised his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
KJVThe sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.
GIGAKJVThe sun and moon stood still in their home: at the light of your arrows they went, and at the shining of your glittering spear.
KJVThou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
GIGAKJVYou marched through the land in anger, you threshed the nations in anger.
KJVThou 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.
GIGAKJVYou went out for the salvation of your people, even for salvation with your anointed. You wounded the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation to the neck. Selah.
KJVThou 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.
GIGAKJVYou pierced with his own spears the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
KJVThou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters.
GIGAKJVYou did walk through the sea with your horses, through the heap of great waters.
KJVWhen 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.
GIGAKJVWhen I heard, my belly trembled. My lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, I might rest in the day of trouble: when he comes up to the people, he will invade them with his troops.
KJVAlthough 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:
GIGAKJVAlthough the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines, the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no food, the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls,
KJVThe 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.
GIGAKJVThe Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like a doe's feet, and he will make me to walk on my high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.
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