Habakkuk 3:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁹ Thy bow was made quite bare; The oaths to the tribes were a sure word. 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.

Habakkuk 3:9 Cross References

Psalm 105:41

He opened the rock, and waters gushed out; They ran in the dry places like a river.

1 Corinthians 10:4

and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ.

Lamentations 2:4

He hath bent his bow like an enemy, he hath stood with his right hand as an adversary, and hath slain all that were pleasant to the eye: in the tent of the daughter of Zion he hath poured out his fury like fire.

Isaiah 52:10

The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

Psalm 143:6

I spread forth my hands unto thee: My soul thirsteth after thee, as a weary land. Selah

Deuteronomy 32:23

I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them:

Numbers 20:11

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

Exodus 17:6

Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

Habakkuk 3:11

The sun and moon stood still in their habitation; At the light of thine arrows as they went, At the shining of thy glittering spear.

Job 28:10

He cutteth out channels among the rocks; And his eye seeth every precious thing.