Habakkuk 3:12

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“You marched across the earth with fury; You threshed the nations in wrath.”

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BSBPD

“You marched across the earth with fury; You threshed the nations in wrath.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Thou didst march through the land in indignation; Thou didst thresh the nations in anger.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“In indignation Thou dost tread earth, In anger Thou dost thresh nations.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Habakkuk 3:12 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Numbers 21:23But Sihon would not let Israel pass through his territory. Instead, he gathered his whole army and went out to confront Israel in the wilderness. When he came to Jahaz, he fought against Israel.
  2. Joshua 6:1Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in.
  3. Nehemiah 9:22You gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner of the land. So they took the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and of Og king of Bashan.
  4. Psalms 44:1We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.
  5. Psalms 78:55He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
  6. Psalms 90:7For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.
  7. Psalms 110:5The Lord is at Your right hand; He will crush kings in the day of His wrath.
  8. Isaiah 41:15Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.
  9. Jeremiah 51:33For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.”
  10. Amos 1:3This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they threshed Gilead with sledges of iron.
  11. Micah 4:12But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD or understand His plan, for He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.
  12. Zechariah 1:15but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have added to the calamity.’
  13. Acts 13:19And having vanquished seven nations in Canaan, He gave their land to His people as an inheritance.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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