Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
To nakedness, is bared thy bow, oaths of chastisement - song! Selah. With rivers, thou dost cleave open the land.
New American Standard Bible
The rods of
You
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
the arrows are ready
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.
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.
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.
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.
Topics
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Habakkuk 3:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Prayer Of Habakkuk
8 Against the rivers, is Yahweh wroth? Against the rivers, is thine anger? Against the sea, is thine indignation? For thou wilt ride on Thy horses, Thy chariots, shall be salvation! 9 To nakedness, is bared thy bow, oaths of chastisement - song! Selah. With rivers, thou dost cleave open the land. 10 The mountains, have seen thee - they tremble, a downpour of waters, hath passed along, - the roaring deep, hath given forth, his voice, on high - his hand, hath he uplifted.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Psalm 7:12-13
If he turn not, his sword, will he whet, - his bow, hath he bent, and made ready:
Psalm 78:15-16
He used to cleave rocks in the desert, And let them drink as out of mighty deeps;
Psalm 105:41
He opened the rock, and there gushed forth waters, They flowed along, through parched places, as a river;
Genesis 15:18-21
In that day, did Yahweh solemnise with Abram a covenant, saying, - To thy seed, have I given this land, from the river of Egypt as far as the great river - the river Euphrates:
Genesis 17:7-8
And I will confirm my covenant betwixt me and thee and thy seed after thee to their generations for an age-abiding covenant, - to become to thee a God, and to thy seed after thee;
Genesis 22:16-18
and said, By myself, have I sworn is the oracle of Yahweh, - Because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only one,
Genesis 26:3-4
Sojourn in this land, that I may be with thee and bless thee, - for, to thee, and to thy seed, will I give all these lands, So will I establish the oath which I sware to Abraham thy father;
Genesis 28:13-14
and lo! Yahweh, standing by him, - and he said, I, am Yahweh, God of Abraham thy father and God of Isaac, - The land whereon, thou, art lying, to thee, will I give it and to thy seed;
Exodus 17:6
Behold me! standing before thee, there upon the rock in Horeb, then shalt thou smite the rock and there shall come forth therefrom water, and the people shall drink. And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel.
Numbers 20:11
And Moses lifted high his hand and smote the cliff with his staff, twice, - and there came forth water in abundance, and the assembly and their cattle, did drink.
Deuteronomy 32:23
I will heap on them, calamities, - Mine arrows, will I spend upon them:
Psalm 35:1-3
Contend, O Yahweh, with them who contend with me, Make war upon them who make war upon me.
Psalm 105:8-11
He hath remembered, unto times age-abiding, his covenant, The word he commanded, to a thousand generations;
Isaiah 51:9-10
Awake, awake put on strength, O arm of Yahweh, Awake, As in days of old, The generations of bygone ages: Art not thou that which - Hewed down Rahab, Piercing the Crocodile?
Isaiah 52:10
Yahweh hath bared his holy arm, in the eyes of all the nations, So shall all the ends of the earth see the salvation of our God.
Lamentations 2:4
He hath trodden his bow like a foe, his right hand erect as an adversary, and hath slain all them who delighted the eye, - In the home of the daughter of Zion, hath he poured out, as fire, his indignation.
Luke 1:72-75
To perform mercy with our fathers, and to be mindful of his holy covenant, -
1 Corinthians 10:4
And, all, drank, the same spiritual drink, - for they continued to drink of the spiritual rock that followed them, and, the rock, was the Christ: -
Hebrews 6:13-18
For, when to Abraham God made promise, seeing he had no one greater by whom to swear, He sware, by himself, -