Habakkuk 3:11 “Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying a…”

Habakkuk 3:11

Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

The sun and moon stood still in the sky at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

The sunne and moone stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrowes they went, and at the bright shining of thy speares.

Darby Translation

The sun [and] moon stood still in their habitation, At the light of thine arrows which shot forth, — At the shining of thy glittering spear.

Young's Literal Translation

Sun — moon — hath stood — a habitation, At the light thine arrows go on, At the brightness, the glittering of thy spear.

Bible in Basic English

At the light of your arrows they went away, at the shining of your polished spear.

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Cross references

“sun”

Isaiah 28:21 Isaiah 38:8 Joshua 10:12 Joshua 10:13

Isaiah 28:21 · BSB

For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work, and to perform His task, His disturbing task.

Isaiah 38:8 · BSB

I will make the sun’s shadow that falls on the stairway of Ahaz go back ten steps.’” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had descended.

Joshua 10:12 · BSB

On the day that the LORD gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”

Joshua 10:13 · BSB

So the sun stood still and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance upon its enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? “So the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full da…

“habitation”

Psalm 19:4

Psalm 19:4 · BSB

their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.

“at the light of thine arrows they went”

Psalm 18:12–14 Joshua 10:11 Psalm 77:17 Psalm 77:18 Psalm 144:5 Psalm 144:6

Psalm 18:12–14 · BSB

From the brightness of His presence His clouds advanced— hailstones and coals of fire.

Joshua 10:11 · BSB

As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.

Psalm 77:17 · BSB

The clouds poured down water; the skies resounded with thunder; Your arrows flashed back and forth.

Psalm 77:18 · BSB

Your thunder resounded in the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.

Psalm 144:5 · BSB

Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.

Psalm 144:6 · BSB

Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10The mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high.

12You marched across the earth with fury; You threshed the nations in wrath.

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