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\c 3
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\v 1 The prayer of Habakkuk the prophet:
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\f + \ft The Hebrew text adds the expression \fqa on shigionoth \fqa* , which may refer to musical directions for singers. \f*
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\q
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\v 2 Yahweh, I have heard your report, and I am afraid.
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\q Yahweh, revive your work in the midst of these times; in the midst of these times make it known;
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\q remember to have compassion in your wrath.
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\q
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\v 3 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. \qs Selah. \qs*
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\q His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.
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\q
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\v 4 With brightness like the light, two-pronged rays flash from his hand;
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\q and there he hid his power.
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\q
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\v 5 Deadly disease went before him,
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\q and the plague followed him.
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\q
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\v 6 He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations.
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\q Even the eternal mountains were shattered, and the everlasting hills bowed down.
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\q His path is everlasting.
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\q
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\v 7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction, and the fabric of the tents in the land of Midian trembling.
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\q
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\v 8 Was Yahweh angry at the rivers? Was your wrath against the rivers,
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\q or your fury against the sea,
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\q when you rode upon your horses and your victorious chariots?
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\q
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\v 9 You have brought out your bow without a cover; you put arrows to your bow! \qs Selah. \qs*
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\q You divided the earth with rivers.
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\q
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\v 10 The mountains saw you and twisted in pain.
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\q Downpours of water passed over them; the deep sea raised a shout.
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\q It lifted up its waves.
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\q
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\v 11 The sun and moon stood still in their high places
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\q at the flash of your arrows as they fly,
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\q at the lightning of your flashing spear.
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\q
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\v 12 You have marched over the earth with indignation. In wrath you have threshed the nations.
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\q
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\v 13 You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed one.
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\q You shatter the head of the house of the wicked to lay bare from the base up to the neck. \qs Selah. \qs*
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\q
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\v 14 You have pierced the head of his warriors with his own arrows since they came like a storm to scatter us,
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\q their gloating was like one who devours the poor in a hiding place.
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\q
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\v 15 You have traveled over the sea with your horses, and heaped up the great waters.
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\q
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\v 16 I heard, and my inner parts trembled! My lips quivered at the sound.
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\q Decay comes into my bones, and under myself I tremble
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\q as I wait quietly for the day of distress to come upon the people who invade us.
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\q2
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\v 17 Though the fig tree does not bud and there is no produce from the vines;
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\q2 and though the produce of the olive tree disappoints and the fields yield no food;
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\q2 and though the flock is cut off from the fold and there are no cattle in the stalls, this is what I will do.
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\q
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\v 18 Still, I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful because of the God of my salvation.
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\q
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\v 19 The Lord Yahweh is my strength
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\q and he makes my feet like the deer's.
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\q He makes me go forward on my high places.
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\q3 —To the music director, on my stringed instruments.
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