The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Habakkuk 2:18 (CSB)

What use is a carved idol
after its craftsman carves it?
It is only a cast image, a teacher of lies.
For the one who crafts its shape trusts in it
and makes worthless idols that cannot speak.

 

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Habakkuk 2:19 (CSB)

19 Woe to him who says to wood: Wake up!
or to mute stone: Come alive!
Can it teach?
Look! It may be plated with gold and silver,
yet there is no breath in it at all.

 

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Habakkuk 2:20 (CSB)

20 But the Lord is in his holy temple;
let the whole earth
be silent in his presence.

 

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Habakkuk (NRSV)

3 A prayer of the prophet Habakkuk according to Shigionoth.

 

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Habakkuk 3:2 (NRSV)

2 O Lord, I have heard of your renown,
and I stand in awe, O Lord, of your work.
In our own time revive it;
in our own time make it known;
in wrath may you remember mercy.

 

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Habakkuk 3:3 (NRSV)

3 God came from Teman,
the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah
His glory covered the heavens,
and the earth was full of his praise.

 

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Habakkuk 3:4 (NRSV)

4 The brightness was like the sun;
rays came forth from his hand,
where his power lay hidden.

 

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Habakkuk 3:5 (NRSV)

5 Before him went pestilence,
and plague followed close behind.

 

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Habakkuk 3:6 (NRSV)

6 He stopped and shook the earth;
he looked and made the nations tremble.
The eternal mountains were shattered;
along his ancient pathways
the everlasting hills sank low.

 

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Habakkuk 3:7 (NRSV)

7 I saw the tents of Cushan under affliction;
the tent-curtains of the land of Midian trembled.

 

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Habakkuk 3:8 (NRSV)

8 Was your wrath against the rivers, O Lord?
Or your anger against the rivers,
or your rage against the sea,
when you drove your horses,
your chariots to victory?

 

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Habakkuk 3:9 (NRSV)

9 You brandished your naked bow,
sated were the arrows at your command. Selah
You split the earth with rivers.

 

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Habakkuk 3:10 (NRSV)

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

 

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Habakkuk 3:11 (NRSV)

11 the moon stood still in its exalted place,
at the light of your arrows speeding by,
at the gleam of your flashing spear.

 

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Habakkuk 3:12 (NRSV)

12 In fury you trod the earth,
in anger you trampled nations.

 

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Habakkuk 3:13 (NRSV)

13 You came forth to save your people,
to save your anointed.
You crushed the head of the wicked house,
laying it bare from foundation to roof. Selah

 

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Habakkuk 3:14 (NRSV)

14 You pierced with their own arrows the head of his warriors,
who came like a whirlwind to scatter us,
gloating as if ready to devour the poor who were in hiding.

 

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Habakkuk 3:15 (NRSV)

15 You trampled the sea with your horses,
churning the mighty waters.

 

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Habakkuk 3:16 (NRSV)

16 I hear, and I tremble within;
my lips quiver at the sound.
Rottenness enters into my bones,
and my steps tremble beneath me.
I wait quietly for the day of calamity
to come upon the people who attack us.

 

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Habakkuk 3:17 (NRSV)

17 Though the fig tree does not blossom,
and no fruit is on the vines;
though the produce of the olive fails
and the fields yield no food;
though the flock is cut off from the fold
and there is no herd in the stalls,