Habakkuk 3:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ Before him went pestilence, and plague followed close behind.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Before him went the pestilence, And burning coals went forth at his feet.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Before Him went the pestilence [as in Egypt], and burning plague followed His feet [as in Sennacherib's army]. [Exod. 7:2-4; II Kings 19:32-35.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Before him went the pestilence, And fiery bolts went forth at his feet.

Common English Bible

⁵ Pestilence walks in front of him. Plague marches at his feet.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Death will go forth before his face. And the devil shall depart before his feet.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Death shall go before his face. And the devil shall go forth before his feet.

Habakkuk 3:5 Cross References

Psalm 97:3

Fire goes before him and consumes his adversaries on every side.

Leviticus 26:25

I will bring the sword against you, executing vengeance for the covenant, and if you withdraw into your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into enemy hands.

Numbers 11:1

Now when the people complained in the hearing of the Lord about their misfortunes, the Lord heard it, and his anger was kindled. Then the fire of the Lord burned against them and consumed some outlying parts of the camp.

Numbers 14:12

I will strike them with pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”

Deuteronomy 32:24

wasting hunger, burning consumption, bitter pestilence. The teeth of beasts I will send against them, with venom of things crawling in the dust.