Habakkuk 3:5 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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.

Habakkuk 3:5 Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:24

they shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and poisonous pestilence; and I will send the teeth of beasts against them, with venom of crawling things of the dust.

Numbers 14:12

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

Numbers 11:1

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

Psalm 97:3

Fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries round about.

Leviticus 26:25

And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant; and if you gather within your cities I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.