Habakkuk 3:10

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“The mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high.”

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BSBPD

“The mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“The mountains saw thee, and were afraid; The tempest of waters passed by; The deep uttered its voice, And lifted up its hands on high.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Seen thee--pained are mountains, An inundation of waters hath passed over, Given forth hath the deep its voice, High its hands it hath lifted up.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Habakkuk 3:10 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 14:22and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.
  2. Exodus 19:16On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning. A thick cloud was upon the mountain, and a very loud blast of the ram’s horn went out, so that all the people in the camp trembled.
  3. Joshua 3:15Now the Jordan overflows its banks throughout the harvest season. But as soon as the priests carrying the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water’s edge,
  4. Joshua 4:18When the priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD came up out of the Jordan and their feet touched the dry land, the waters of the Jordan returned to their course and overflowed all the banks as before.
  5. Joshua 4:23For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, just as He did to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed over.
  6. Judges 5:4O LORD, when You went out from Seir, when You marched from the land of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured out rain, and the clouds poured down water.
  7. Nehemiah 9:11You divided the sea before them, and they crossed through it on dry ground. You hurled their pursuers into the depths like a stone into raging waters.
  8. Psalms 18:15The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at Your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
  9. Psalms 65:13The pastures are clothed with flocks, and the valleys are decked with grain. They shout in triumph; indeed, they sing.
  10. Psalms 66:6He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the waters on foot; there we rejoiced in Him.
  11. Psalms 68:7O God, when You went out before Your people, when You marched through the wasteland, Selah
  12. Psalms 74:13You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;
  13. Psalms 77:16The waters saw You, O God; the waters saw You and swirled; even the depths were shaken.
  14. Psalms 77:17The clouds poured down water; the skies resounded with thunder; Your arrows flashed back and forth.
  15. Psalms 93:3The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.
  16. Psalms 96:11Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice; let the sea resound, and all that fills it.
  17. Psalms 97:4His lightning illuminates the world; the earth sees and trembles.
  18. Psalms 98:7Let the sea resound, and all that fills it, the world, and all who dwell in it.
  19. Psalms 114:3The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;
  20. Psalms 136:13He divided the Red Sea in two His loving devotion endures forever.
  21. Isaiah 11:15The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals.
  22. Isaiah 43:20The beasts of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I provide water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people.
  23. Isaiah 55:12You will indeed go out with joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
  24. Isaiah 63:11Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,

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