Habakkuk

¹ A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet. On shigionoth.

² I stand in awe of your deeds, O Lord. Renew them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy.

³ the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His glory covered the heavens and his praise filled the earth.

⁴ rays flashed from his hand, where his power was hidden.

⁵ pestilence followed his steps.

⁶ he looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains crumbled and the age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal.

⁷ the dwellings of Midian in anguish.

⁸ Was your wrath against the streams? Did you rage against the sea when you rode with your horses and your victorious chariots?

⁹ you called for many arrows. Selah You split the earth with rivers;

¹⁰ Torrents of water swept by; the deep roared and lifted its waves on high.

¹¹ at the glint of your flying arrows, at the lightning of your flashing spear.

¹² and in anger you threshed the nations.

¹³ to save your anointed one. You crushed the leader of the land of wickedness, you stripped him from head to foot. Selah

¹⁴ when his warriors stormed out to scatter us, gloating as though about to devour the wretched who were in hiding.

¹⁵ churning the great waters.

¹⁶ my lips quivered at the sound; decay crept into my bones, and my legs trembled. Yet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity to come on the nation invading us.

¹⁷ and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls,

¹⁸ I will be joyful in God my Savior.

¹⁹ he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to go on the heights. For the director of music. On my stringed instruments.