Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Utterly naked Thou dost make Thy bow, Sworn are the tribes -- saying, 'Pause!' With rivers Thou dost cleave the earth.
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Habakkuk 3:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Prayer Of Habakkuk
8 Against rivers hath Jehovah been wroth? Against rivers is Thine anger? Against the sea is Thy wrath? For Thou dost ride on Thy horses -- Thy chariots of salvation? 9 Utterly naked Thou dost make Thy bow, Sworn are the tribes -- saying, 'Pause!' With rivers Thou dost cleave the earth. 10 Seen thee -- pained are mountains, An inundation of waters hath passed over, Given forth hath the deep its voice, High its hands it hath lifted up.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Psalm 7:12-13
If one turn not, His sword he sharpeneth, His bow he hath trodden -- He prepareth it,
Psalm 78:15-16
He cleaveth rocks in a wilderness, And giveth drink -- as the great deep.
Psalm 105:41
He hath opened a rock, and waters issue, They have gone on in dry places -- a river.
Genesis 15:18-21
In that day hath Jehovah made with Abram a covenant, saying, 'To thy seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Phrat,
Genesis 17:7-8
'And I have established My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for a covenant age-during, to become God to thee, and to thy seed after thee;
Genesis 22:16-18
and saith, 'By Myself I have sworn -- the affirmation of Jehovah -- that because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only one --
Genesis 26:3-4
sojourn in this land, and I am with thee, and bless thee, for to thee and to thy seed I give all these lands, and I have established the oath which I have sworn to Abraham thy father;
Genesis 28:13-14
and lo, Jehovah is standing upon it, and He saith, 'I am Jehovah, God of Abraham thy father, and God of Isaac; the land on which thou art lying, to thee I give it, and to thy seed;
Exodus 17:6
Lo, I am standing before thee there on the rock in Horeb, and thou hast smitten on the rock, and waters have come out from it, and the people have drunk.' And Moses doth so before the eyes of the elders of Israel,
Numbers 20:11
and Moses lifteth up his hand, and smiteth the rock with his rod twice; and much water cometh out, and the company drink, also their beasts.
Deuteronomy 32:23
I gather upon them evils, Mine arrows I consume upon them.
Psalm 35:1-3
By David. Strive, Jehovah, with my strivers, fight with my fighters,
Psalm 105:8-11
He hath remembered to the age His covenant, The word He commanded to a thousand generations,
Psalm 143:6
I have spread forth my hands unto Thee, My soul is as a weary land for Thee. Selah.
Isaiah 51:9-10
Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah, Awake, as in days of old, generations of the ages, Art not Thou it that is hewing down Rahab, Piercing a dragon!
Isaiah 52:10
Jehovah hath made bare His holy arm Before the eyes of all the nations, And seen have all the ends of the earth, The salvation of our God.
Lamentations 2:4
He hath trodden His bow as an enemy, Stood hath His right hand as an adversary, And He slayeth all the desirable ones of the eye, In the tent of the daughter of Zion, He hath poured out as fire His fury.
Luke 1:72-75
To do kindness with our fathers, And to be mindful of His holy covenant,
1 Corinthians 10:4
and all the same spiritual drink did drink, for they were drinking of a spiritual rock following them, and the rock was the Christ;
Hebrews 6:13-18
For to Abraham God, having made promise, seeing He was able to swear by no greater, did swear by Himself,