Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Habakkuk 3:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Prayer Of Habakkuk
8
Oh LORD, wast thou displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath even against the sea when thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of saving health?
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The rods of
You
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Names
Cross References
Psalm 7:12-13
If he does not turn, he will whet his sword; he has bent his bow and made it ready.
Psalm 78:15-16
He clave the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
Psalm 105:41
He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places and became a river.
Genesis 15:18-21
In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed shall I give 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 in 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 I have sworn, said the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son;
Genesis 26:3-4
abide 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 confirm the oath which I swore unto Abraham thy father;
Genesis 28:13-14
And, behold, the LORD stood above it and said, I AM the God of Abraham, thy father, and the God of Isaac; the land upon which thou dost lie, 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 water shall come out of it that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
Numbers 20:11
Then Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice; and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.
Deuteronomy 32:23
I will heap evils upon them; I will spend my arrows upon them.
Psalm 35:1-3
Plead my cause, O LORD, with those that strive with me; fight against those that fight against me.
Psalm 105:8-11
He has remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded for a thousand generations,
Psalm 143:6
I stretched forth my hands unto thee; my soul thirsted after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
Isaiah 51:9-10
Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in ages past. Art thou not he who cut off the proud one, and he who smote the dragon?
Isaiah 52:10
The LORD has made bare the arm of his holiness before the eyes of all the Gentiles; and all the ends of the earth shall see the saving health of our God.
Lamentations 2:4
Daleth He has bent his bow like an enemy; he strengthened his right hand as an adversary and slew everything of beauty that could be seen in the tent of the daughter of Zion; he poured out his fury like fire.
Luke 1:72-75
to fulfill mercy unto our fathers and remembering his holy covenant
1 Corinthians 10:4
and did all drink the same spiritual drink, for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them; and that Rock was the Christ.
Hebrews 6:13-18
For when God promised unto Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself,