Habakkuk 3:9 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁹ Thou didst strip the sheath from thy bow, and put the arrows to the string. Selah Thou didst cleave 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

He cuts out channels in the rocks, and his eye sees every precious thing.

Psalm 105:41

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

Psalm 143:6

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

Exodus 17:6

Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, that the people may drink.” And 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; and he has slain all the pride of our eyes in the tent of the daughter of Zion; he has poured out his fury like fire.

Habakkuk 3:11

The sun and moon stood still in their habitation at the light of thine arrows as they sped, at the flash of thy glittering spear.

Numbers 20:11

And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his rod twice; and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their cattle.

1 Corinthians 10:4

and all drank the same supernatural drink. For they drank from the supernatural Rock which followed them, and the Rock was Christ.

Deuteronomy 32:23

“ ‘And I will heap evils upon them; I will spend my arrows upon them;