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Habakkuk 3:12
12With indignation You pace the land. With anger You thresh nations.
Habakkuk 3:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
- New International Version (NIV)In wrath you strode through the earth and in anger you threshed the nations.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You marched through the earth in fury; you threshed the nations in anger.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You marched through the land in indignation; You trampled the nations in anger.
Context of Habakkuk 3:12
10The mountains saw You and writhe. A downpour of water overflows. The deep gives its voice— it lifts up hands high. 11Sun and moon, stand in lofty abode. At the flash of Your arrows they go, at the radiance of the lightning of Your spear. With indignation You pace the land. With anger You thresh nations. 13You went out for the salvation of Your people—for the deliverance of Your anointed one. You shatter the head of the house of the wicked—to lay it bare from foundation up to the top. Selah 14You have pierced his chief rulers with his own staff— They stormed in to scatter me. Their exultation is like devouring the weak in secret.
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בְּזַ֖עַם תִּצְעַד־אָ֑רֶץ בְּאַ֖ף תָּד֥וּשׁ גּוֹיִֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Habakkuk 3:12
- Numbers 21:23But Sihon would not let Israel pass through his territory. Instead, Sihon called out his entire army and marched out into the desert to oppose Israel. When he came to Jahaz, he fought against Israel.
- Joshua 6:1Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of Bnei-Yisrael—no one going out and no one coming in.
- Nehemiah 9:22“You gave them kingdoms and peoples and You allotted them their boundaries of the land. They possessed the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and the country of Og king of Bashan.
- Psalms 44:1For the music director, a psalm of the sons of Korah, a contemplative song.
- Psalms 78:55He drove out nations before them, and allotted them an inheritance. He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
- Acts 13:19And when He had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He gave their land as an inheritance—
- Jeremiah 51:33For thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Israel: “The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at treading time. A little longer, and the time of harvest for her will come.”
- Amos 1:3Thus says Adonai: For three crimes of Damascus, even for four, I will not relent. For they threshed Gilead with iron threshing sledges,
- Micah 4:12But they do not know Adonai’s thoughts, nor understand His plan. For He has gathered them like grain to a threshing floor.
Commentaries on Habakkuk 3:12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12Thou didst march through the land - This refers to the conquest of Canaan. God is represented as going at the head of his people as general-in-chief; and leading them on from conquest to conquest - which was the fact. Thou didst thresh the heathen in anger - Thou didst tread them down, as the oxen do the sheaves on the threshing-floor.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12Thou didst march the earth in indignation - The word “tread” is used of very solemn manifestations of God, (Judges 5:4; Psalm 68:8; of the procession of the ark, 2 Samuel 6:13. It is denied as to the idols, Jeremiah 10:5.) of His going to give to His own victory over their enemies Not the land only, as of old, but the earth is the scene of His judgments; the earth which was “full of His praise,” which He “meted out” Habakkuk 3:3, Habakkuk 3:6 which…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 3-15Verses 3-15 God's people, when in distress, and ready to despair, seek help by considering the days of old, and the years of ancient times, and by pleading them with God in prayer. The resemblance between the Babylonish and Egyptian captivities, naturally presents itself to the mind, as well as the possibility of a like deliverance through the power of Jehovah. God appeared in his glory. All the powers of nature are shaken, and the course of nature…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8-15The Lord acts as a divine warrior for his people, using his power to save them. This picture of God as a divine warrior appears in both the Old Testament and the New Testament. In the Old Testament, it is seen in Israel’s escape from Egypt and their journey to Mount Sinai (Exodus 15:1–18). It also appears as Israel approached the promised land from the south and during their early victories in the land (for example, Judges 5:4–5; Psalms 18:8–16…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1212. march--implying Jehovah's majestic and irresistible progress before His people (Jud 5:4; Psa 68:7). Israel would not have dared to attack the nations, unless Jehovah had gone before. thresh--(Mi 4:13).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Habakkuk 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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