Parallel Verses

NET Bible

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

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.

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.

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

American

Easton

Hastings

Morish

Context Readings

The Prayer Of Habakkuk

8 Is the Lord mad at the rivers? Are you angry with the rivers? Are you enraged at the sea? Is this why you climb into your horse-drawn chariots, your victorious chariots? 9 Your bow is ready for action; you commission your arrows. Selah. You cause flash floods on the earth's surface. 10 When the mountains see you, they shake. The torrential downpour sweeps through. The great deep shouts out; it lifts its hands high.

Cross References

Psalm 7:12-13

If a person does not repent, God sharpens his sword and prepares to shoot his bow.

Psalm 78:15-16

He broke open rocks in the wilderness, and gave them enough water to fill the depths of the sea.

Psalm 105:41

He opened up a rock and water flowed out; a river ran through dry regions.

Genesis 15:18-21

That day the Lord made a covenant with Abram: "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River --

Genesis 17:7-8

I will confirm my covenant as a perpetual covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

Genesis 22:16-18

and said, "'I solemnly swear by my own name,' decrees the Lord, 'that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,

Genesis 26:3-4

Stay in this land. Then I will be with you and will bless you, for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, and I will fulfill the solemn promise I made to your father Abraham.

Genesis 28:13-14

and the Lord stood at its top. He said, "I am the Lord, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the ground you are lying on.

Exodus 17:6

I will be standing before you there on the rock in Horeb, and you will strike the rock, and water will come out of it so that the people may drink." And Moses did so in plain view of the elders of Israel.

Numbers 20:11

Then Moses raised his hand, and struck the rock twice with his staff. And water came out abundantly. So the community drank, and their beasts drank too.

Deuteronomy 32:23

I will increase their disasters, I will use up my arrows on them.

Psalm 35:1-3

By David. O Lord, fight those who fight with me! Attack those who attack me!

Psalm 105:8-11

He always remembers his covenantal decree, the promise he made to a thousand generations --

Psalm 143:6

I spread my hands out to you in prayer; my soul thirsts for you in a parched land.

Isaiah 51:9-10

Wake up! Wake up! Clothe yourself with strength, O arm of the Lord! Wake up as in former times, as in antiquity! Did you not smash the Proud One? Did you not wound the sea monster?

Isaiah 52:10

The Lord reveals his royal power in the sight of all the nations; the entire earth sees our God deliver.

Lamentations 2:4

(Dalet) He prepared his bow like an enemy; his right hand was ready to shoot. Like a foe he killed everyone, even our strong young men; he has poured out his anger like fire on the tent of Daughter Zion.

Luke 1:72-75

He has done this to show mercy to our ancestors, and to remember his holy covenant --

1 Corinthians 10:4

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were all drinking from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

Hebrews 6:13-18

Now when God made his promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,

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