Habakkuk 3 Clementine Vulgate
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1 Oratio Habacuc prophetæ, pro ignorantiis.
1 A prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet, set to victorious music.
2 [Domine, audivi auditionem tuam, et timui. Domine, opus tuum, in medio annorum vivifica illud; in medio annorum notum facies: cum iratus fueris, misericordiæ recordaberis.
2 Yahweh, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, Yahweh. Renew your work in the middle of the years. In the middle of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.
3 Deus ab austro veniet, et Sanctus de monte Pharan: operuit cælos gloria ejus, et laudis ejus plena est terra.
3 God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.
4 Splendor ejus ut lux erit, cornua in manibus ejus: ibi abscondita est fortitudo ejus.
4 His splendor is like the sunrise. Rays shine from his hand, where his power is hidden.
5 Ante faciem ejus ibit mors, et egredietur diabolus ante pedes ejus.
5 Plague went before him, and pestilence followed his feet.
6 Stetit, et mensus est terram; aspexit, et dissolvit gentes, et contriti sunt montes sæculi: incurvati sunt colles mundi ab itineribus æternitatis ejus.
6 He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal.
7 Pro iniquitate vidi tentoria Æthiopiæ; turbabuntur pelles terræ Madian.
7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction. The dwellings of the land of Midian trembled.
8 Numquid in fluminibus iratus es, Domine? aut in fluminibus furor tuus? vel in mari indignatio tua? Qui ascendes super equos tuos, et quadrigæ tuæ salvatio.
8 Was Yahweh displeased with the rivers? Was your anger against the rivers, or your wrath against the sea, that you rode on your horses, on your chariots of salvation?
9 Suscitans suscitabis arcum tuum, juramenta tribubus quæ locutus es; fluvios scindes terræ.
9 You uncovered your bow. You called for your sworn arrows. Selah. You split the earth with rivers.
10 Viderunt te, et doluerunt montes; gurges aquarum transiit: dedit abyssus vocem suam; altitudo manus suas levavit.
10 The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.
11 Sol et luna steterunt in habitaculo suo: in luce sagittarum tuarum ibunt, in splendore fulgurantis hastæ tuæ.
11 The sun and moon stood still in the sky at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.
12 In fremitu conculcabis terram; in furore obstupefacies gentes.
12 You marched through the land in wrath. You threshed the nations in anger.
13 Egressus es in salutem populi tui, in salutem cum christo tuo: percussisti caput de domo impii, denudasti fundamentum ejus usque ad collum.
13 You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the land of wickedness. You stripped them head to foot. Selah.
14 Maledixisti sceptris ejus, capiti bellatorum ejus, venientibus ut turbo ad dispergendum me: exsultatio eorum, sicut ejus qui devorat pauperem in abscondito.
14 You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.
15 Viam fecisti in mari equis tuis, in luto aquarum multarum.
15 You trampled the sea with your horses, churning mighty waters.
16 Audivi, et conturbatus est venter meus; a voce contremuerunt labia mea. Ingrediatur putredo in ossibus meis, et subter me scateat: ut requiescam in die tribulationis, ut ascendam ad populum accinctum nostrum.
16 I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.
17 Ficus enim non florebit, et non erit germen in vineis; mentietur opus olivæ, et arva non afferent cibum: abscindetur de ovili pecus, et non erit armentum in præsepibus.
17 For even though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines, the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food, the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls,
18 Ego autem in Domino gaudebo; et exsultabo in Deo Jesu meo.
18 yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!
19 Deus Dominus fortitudo mea, et ponet pedes meos quasi cervorum: et super excelsa mea deducet me victor in psalmis canentem.]
19 Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.
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Habakkuk
The prophet who received the burden of his book in a vision.
Cited in the guide: Habakkuk 1:1; Habakkuk 3:1
Cross references (19)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 86:1–17; Psalm 90:1–17; Psalm 7:1–17
- 2 Psalm 85:6; Psalm 90:13–17; Hosea 6:2–3; Isaiah 51:9–11; Lamentations 3:32
- 3 Deuteronomy 33:2; Obadiah 9; Amos 1:12; Psalm 4:4; Isaiah 6:3
- 4 Matthew 17:2; Isaiah 60:19–20; Revelation 22:5; Exodus 14:20; Job 26:14
- 5 Exodus 12:29–30; Nahum 1:2–3; Numbers 16:46–49; Numbers 14:12; Psalm 78:50–51
- 6 Genesis 49:26; Nahum 1:5; Deuteronomy 33:15; Isaiah 64:1–3; Isaiah 51:6
- 7 Exodus 15:14–16; Genesis 25:1–4; Numbers 22:3–4; Psalm 83:5–10; Genesis 10:6–7
- 8 Psalm 68:17; Deuteronomy 33:26–27; Exodus 14:21–22; Psalm 114:3; Psalm 114:5
- 9 Psalm 7:12–13; Psalm 105:41; Psalm 78:15–16; Luke 1:72–75; Exodus 17:6
- 10 Psalm 98:7–8; Jeremiah 4:24; Psalm 93:3; Joshua 4:23–24; Isaiah 43:20
- 11 Psalm 144:5–6; Psalm 18:12–14; Joshua 10:11–13; Isaiah 38:8; Isaiah 28:21
- 12 Jeremiah 51:33; Micah 4:12–13; Isaiah 41:15; Nehemiah 9:22–24; Psalm 44:1–3
- 13 Psalm 110:6; Psalm 105:15; Exodus 14:13–14; Joshua 11:12; Psalm 68:19–23
- 14 Zechariah 9:14; Daniel 11:40; Psalm 118:10–12; Exodus 11:4–7; Exodus 1:10–16
- 15 Psalm 77:19; Habakkuk 3:8; Exodus 15:8
- 16 Jeremiah 23:9; Habakkuk 1:5–11; Habakkuk 3:2; Daniel 10:8; Jeremiah 45:3–5
- 17 Joel 1:16–18; Jeremiah 5:17; Amos 4:6–10; Deuteronomy 28:15–18; Deuteronomy 28:30–41
- 18 Job 13:15; Micah 7:7; Philippians 4:4; Isaiah 61:10; Isaiah 12:2
- 19 2 Samuel 22:34; Psalm 18:33; Philippians 4:13; Psalm 46:1; Deuteronomy 32:13
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
… had been foreknown by the Father; as also says the prophet Habakkuk, "By this Thou shalt be known when the years have drawn nigh; Thou shalt be set forth when the time comes; because my soul is disturbed by anger, Thou shalt remember Thy mercy." Paul also says: "But when the fulness of time came, God sent forth His Son." …
In his prayer, with a song, to whom but the Lord Christ does he say, "O Lord, I have heard Thy hearing, and was afraid: O Lord, I have considered Thy works, and was greatly afraid?" What is this but the inexpressible admiration of the foreknown, new, and sudden salvation of men?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Again thou hast heard Habakkuk say to the Lord, When the years draw nigh, thou shalt be made known, when the time is come, thou shalt be shewn.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
And he makes answer most plainly and says, God shall come from Teman (now Teman is by interpretation south') and the Holy One from Mount Paran, shady, woody: what the Psalmist spake in like words, We found it in the plains of the wood.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)