Habakkuk 3:5 “Plague went before Him, and fever followed in His steps.”

Habakkuk 3:5

Plague went before Him, and fever followed in His steps.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.

World English Bible

Plague went before him, and pestilence followed his feet.

American Standard Version

Before him went the pestilence, And fiery bolts went forth at his feet.

Geneva Bible 1599

Before him went the pestilence, and burning coales went forth before his feete.

Darby Translation

Before him went the pestilence, And a burning flame went forth at his feet.

Young's Literal Translation

Before Him goeth pestilence, And a burning flame goeth forth at His feet.

Bible in Basic English

Before him went disease, and flames went out at his feet.

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Cross references

“went”

Numbers 16:46–49 Numbers 14:12 Exodus 12:29 Exodus 12:30 Psalm 78:50 Psalm 78:51

Numbers 16:46–49 · BSB

Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”

Numbers 14:12 · BSB

I will strike them with a plague and destroy them—and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.”

Exodus 12:29 · BSB

Now at midnight the LORD struck down every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn among th…

Exodus 12:30 · BSB

During the night Pharaoh got up—he and all his officials and all the Egyptians—and there was loud wailing in Egypt; for there was no house without someone dead.

Psalm 78:50 · BSB

He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.

Psalm 78:51 · BSB

He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.

“and”

Psalm 18:7–13

Psalm 18:7–13 · BSB

Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains trembled; they were shaken because He burned with anger.

“burning coals”

Deuteronomy 32:24

Deuteronomy 32:24 · BSB

They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.

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

In context

4His radiance was like the sunlight; rays flashed from His hand, where His power is hidden.

6He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.

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