Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

Thy bow was made quite bare; The oaths to the tribes were a'sure word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.

New American Standard Bible

Your bow was made bare,
The rods of chastisement were sworn. Selah.
You cleaved the earth with rivers.

King James Version

Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.

Holman Bible

You took the sheath from Your bow;
the arrows are ready to be used with an oath.Selah
You split the earth with rivers.

International Standard Version

Your bow was exposed, and your arrows targeted by command. Interlude You split the earth with rivers.

A Conservative Version

Thy bow was made quite bare. The oaths to the tribes were a [sure] word. Selah. Thou split the earth with rivers.

Amplified


Your bow was made bare;
The rods of chastisement were sworn. Selah (pause, calmly think of that).
You split the earth with rivers [bringing waters to dry places].

Bible in Basic English

Your bow was quite uncovered. Selah. By you the earth was cut through with rivers.

Darby Translation

Thy bow was made naked, The rods of discipline sworn according to thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.

Julia Smith Translation

In nakedness thou shalt raise thy bow, the oaths of the tribes, he said. Silence. Thou wilt divide the earth with rivers.

King James 2000

Your bow was made quite ready, according to the oaths over your arrows. Selah. You did divide the earth with rivers.

Lexham Expanded Bible

You laid bare the nakedness of your bow, swearing oaths [with the] arrows of [your] word. You split the earth [with] rivers.

Modern King James verseion

You make Your bow naked, according to the oaths of the rods of Your Word. Selah. You have cut through the earth with rivers.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thou showedest thy bow openly, like as thou hadst promised with an oath unto the tribes. Selah. Thou didst divide the waters of the earth.

NET Bible

Your bow is ready for action; you commission your arrows. Selah. You cause flash floods on the earth's surface.

New Heart English Bible

You uncovered your bow. You called for your sworn arrows. Selah. You split the earth with rivers.

The Emphasized Bible

To nakedness, is bared thy bow, oaths of chastisement - song! Selah. With rivers, thou dost cleave open the land.

Webster

Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.

World English Bible

You uncovered your bow. You called for your sworn arrows. Selah. You split the earth with rivers.

Youngs Literal Translation

Utterly naked Thou dost make Thy bow, Sworn are the tribes -- saying, 'Pause!' With rivers Thou dost cleave the earth.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
קשׁת 
Qesheth 
Usage: 75

עריה 
`eryah 
Usage: 6

עוּר 
`uwr 
Usage: 1

according to the oaths
שׁבוּעה 
Sh@buw`ah 
Usage: 30

of the tribes
מטּה מטּה 
Matteh 
Usage: 251

אמר 
'omer 
Usage: 6

סלה 
Celah 
Usage: 74

בּקע 
Baqa` 
Usage: 51

the earth
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

References

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Easton

Hastings

Morish

Context Readings

The Prayer Of Habakkuk

8 Was Jehovah displeased with the rivers? Was thine anger against the rivers, Or thy wrath against the sea, That thou didst ride upon thy horses, Upon thy chariots of salvation? 9 Thy bow was made quite bare; The oaths to the tribes were a'sure word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers. 10 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.

Cross References

Psalm 7:12-13

If a man turn not, he will whet his sword; He hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

Psalm 78:15-16

He clave rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

Psalm 105:41

He opened the rock, and waters gushed out; They ran in the dry places like a river.

Genesis 15:18-21

In that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

Genesis 17:7-8

And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee.

Genesis 22:16-18

and said, By myself have I sworn, saith Jehovah, because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son,

Genesis 26:3-4

Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee. For unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father.

Genesis 28:13-14

And, behold, Jehovah stood above it, and said, I am Jehovah, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.

Exodus 17:6

Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

Numbers 20:11

And Moses lifted up his hand, and smote the rock with his rod twice: and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their cattle.

Deuteronomy 32:23

I will heap evils upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them:

Psalm 35:1-3

Strive thou, O Jehovah, with them that strive with me: Fight thou against them that fight against me.

Psalm 105:8-11

He hath remembered his covenant for ever, The word which he commanded to a thousand generations,

Psalm 143:6

I spread forth my hands unto thee: My soul thirsteth after thee, as a weary land. Selah

Isaiah 51:9-10

Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah; awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Is it not thou that didst cut Rahab in pieces, that didst pierce the monster?

Isaiah 52:10

Jehovah hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

Lamentations 2:4

He hath bent his bow like an enemy, he hath stood with his right hand as an adversary, And hath slain all that were pleasant to the eye: In the tent of the daughter of Zion he hath poured out his wrath like fire.

Luke 1:72-75

To show mercy towards, our fathers, And to remember his holy covenant;

1 Corinthians 10:4

and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ.

Hebrews 6:13-18

For when God made promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he sware by himself,

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