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Habakkuk 3

Habakkuk 3:4

Habakkuk’s Prayer · Habakkuk 3:1–16
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Translations

Modern
His radiance was like the sunlight; rays flashed from His hand, where His power is hidden.
Traditional
And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
Literal
And His brightness was like the light; rays were unto Him from His hand, and there was the hiding of his power.
Latin
Splendor ejus ut lux erit, cornua in manibus ejus: ibi abscondita est fortitudo ejus.

Original

Hebrew
English
His radiance was like the sunlight; rays flashed from His hand, where His power is hidden.

Notes

Habakkuk 3:4

like the sunlight: The Lord, who appeared on Mount Sinai and filled the southern land with glory, now fills the heavens with splendor.

Habakkuk 3:3–15

The prophet praises God's power to save. These two praise sections (Habakkuk 3:3–7 and 3:8–15) poetically reflect on Israel's exodus. Although Habakkuk focuses on God's redemption of his people, his imagery sometimes includes ideas from ancient Near Eastern stories about the gods. For example:

This imagery reminds Habakkuk's original audience that the Lord alone is the one true God who rules over all these things.

Habakkuk 3:1–19

Habakkuk’s prophecy concludes with a prayer that has the style and language of a psalm (a song of prayer).

Events

Glossary

Book of Habakkuk Habakkuk (Person) Judges, Book of Selah Shiggaion, Shigionoth

Topics

God: Glory of Horn: Symbolical Horns of Power of God Midianites: Terrified at Approach of Israel