Habakkuk 3:6-8

Contemporary English Version

⁶When you stopped,
    the earth shook;
when you stared,
    nations trembled;
when you walked
    along your ancient paths,
eternal mountains and hills
    crumbled and collapsed.
⁷The tents of desert tribes
in Cushan and Midian^[a]
    were ripped apart.

⁸Our Lord, were you angry
with the monsters
of the deep?^[b]
You attacked in your chariot
and wiped them out.

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Footnotes

3.7 Cushan and Midian: Tribes of the Arabian desert who were enemies of Israel.
3.8 monsters of the deep: The Hebrew text has “rivers and oceans,” which may stand for the powerful monsters that were thought to have lived there before the Lord defeated them.