Habakkuk 3:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ You brandished your naked bow; sated were the arrows at your command. Selah You split the earth with rivers.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Thy bow was made quite naked, According to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Your bow was made quite bare; sworn to the tribes [of Israel] by Your sure word were the rods of chastisement, scourges, and calamities. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! With rivers You cleaved the earth [bringing forth waters in dry places]. [Exod. 17:6; Num. 20:11.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Thy bow was made quite bare; The oaths to the tribes were a sure word. [Selah Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.

Common English Bible

⁹ You raise up your empty bow, uttering curses for the arrows. Selah With rivers you split open the earth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Being stirred up, you will take up your bow, the oaths you have spoken to the tribes. You will split apart the Rivers of the earth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ Thou wilt surely take up thy bow: according to the oaths which thou hast spoken to the tribes. Thou wilt divide the rivers of the earth.

Habakkuk 3:9 Cross References

Job 28:10

They cut out channels in the rocks, and their eyes see every precious thing.

Psalm 105:41

He opened the rock, and water gushed out; it flowed through the desert like a river.

Psalm 143:6

I stretch out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah

Exodus 17:6

I will be standing there in front of you on the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it, so that the people may drink.” Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel.

Isaiah 52:10

The Lord has bared his holy arm before the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

Lamentations 2:4

He has bent his bow like an enemy, with his right hand set like a foe; he has killed all those in whom we took pride in the tent of daughter Zion; he has poured out his fury like fire.

Habakkuk 3:11

the moon stood still in its exalted place, at the light of your arrows speeding by, at the gleam of your flashing spear.

Numbers 20:11

Then Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff; water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their livestock drank.

1 Corinthians 10:4

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

Deuteronomy 32:23

I will heap disasters upon them, spend my arrows against them: