Habakkuk 3:2 “O LORD, I have heard the report of You; I stand in awe, O LORD, of You…”

Habakkuk 3:2

O LORD, I have heard the report of You; I stand in awe, O LORD, of Your deeds. Revive them in these years; make them known in these years. In Your wrath, remember mercy!

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.

World English Bible

LORD, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, LORD. Renew your work in the middle of the years. In the middle of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.

American Standard Version

O Jehovah, I have heard the report of thee, and am afraid: O Jehovah, revive thy work in the midst of the years; In the midst of the years make it known; In wrath remember mercy.

Geneva Bible 1599

O Lord, I haue heard thy voyce, and was afraide: O Lord, reuiue thy worke in the mids of the people, in the mids of the yeeres make it knowen: in wrath remember mercy.

Darby Translation

Jehovah, I heard the report of thee, [and] I feared. Jehovah, revive thy work in the midst of the years, In the midst of the years make [it] known: In wrath remember mercy!

Young's Literal Translation

O Jehovah, I heard thy report, I have been afraid, O Jehovah, Thy work! in midst of years revive it, In the midst of years Thou makest known In anger Thou dost remember mercy.

Bible in Basic English

O Lord, word of you has come to my ears; I have seen your work, O Lord; when the years come near make it clear; in wrath keep mercy in mind.

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Cross references

“I have”

Habakkuk 3:16 Habakkuk 1:5–10 Psalm 119:120 Isaiah 66:2 Jeremiah 36:21–24 Revelation 15:4

Habakkuk 3:16 · BSB

I heard and trembled within; my lips quivered at the sound. Decay entered my bones; I trembled where I stood. Yet I must wait patiently for the day of distress to come upon the people who invade us.

Habakkuk 1:5–10 · BSB

“Look at the nations and observe— be utterly astounded! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe even if someone told you.

Psalm 119:120 · BSB

My flesh trembles in awe of You; I stand in fear of Your judgments.

Isaiah 66:2 · BSB

Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.

Jeremiah 36:21–24 · BSB

Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king and all the officials who were standing beside him.

Revelation 15:4 · BSB

Who will not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before You, for Your righteous acts have been revealed.”

“speech”

Isaiah 53:1 Romans 10:16

Isaiah 53:1 · BSB

Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

Romans 10:16 · BSB

But not all of them welcomed the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?”

“O Lord”

Psalm 85:6 Psalm 90:13–17 Isaiah 51:9–11 Philippians 1:6 John 10:10 Ezra 9:8

Psalm 85:6 · BSB

Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You?

Psalm 90:13–17 · BSB

Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.

Isaiah 51:9–11 · BSB

Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?

Philippians 1:6 · BSB

being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

John 10:10 · BSB

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.

Ezra 9:8 · BSB

But now, for a brief moment, grace has come from the LORD our God to preserve for us a remnant and to give us a stake in His holy place. Even in our bondage, our God has given us new life and light to our eyes.

“in the”

Jeremiah 52:31–34 Daniel 9:2 Jeremiah 25:11 Jeremiah 25:12

Jeremiah 52:31–34 · BSB

On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the first year of the reign of Evil-merodach king of Babylon, he pardoned Jehoiachin king of Judah and…

Daniel 9:2 · BSB

in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.

Jeremiah 25:11 · BSB

And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

Jeremiah 25:12 · BSB

But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.

“in wrath”

Lamentations 3:32 Jeremiah 10:24 Jeremiah 29:10 Zechariah 1:12 Psalm 38:1 Exodus 32:10–12

Lamentations 3:32 · BSB

Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.

Jeremiah 10:24 · BSB

Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice— not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.

Jeremiah 29:10 · BSB

For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place.

Zechariah 1:12 · BSB

Then the angel of the LORD said, “How long, O LORD of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?”

Psalm 38:1 · BSB

O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.

Exodus 32:10–12 · BSB

Now leave Me alone, so that My anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”

Also

Isaiah 54:8 Psalm 44:1

Isaiah 54:8 · BSB

In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.

Psalm 44:1 · BSB

We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.

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

In context

1This is a prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth:

3God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His glory covered the heavens, and His praise filled the earth.

Read Habakkuk 3