Hab 3
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A PRAYER OF THE PROPHET AMBACUM, WITH A SONG.
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O Lord, I have heard your report, and was afraid: I considered your works, and was
amazed: you shall be known between the two living creatures, you shall be acknowledged
when the years draw nigh; you shall be manifested when the time is come; when my soul
is troubled, you will in anger remember mercy.
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God shall come from Thaeman, and the Holy One from the dark shady mount Pharan. See note on Ps 3:2 Pause.
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His excellence covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. And his
brightness shall be as light; there were horns in his hands, and he caused a mighty
love of his strength.
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Before his face shall go a report, and it shall go forth into the plains,
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the earth stood at his feet and trembled: he beheld, and the nations melted away:
the mountains were violently burst through, the everlasting hills melted at his everlasting
going forth.
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Because of troubles I looked upon the tents of the Ethiopians: the tabernacles also
of the land of Madiam shall be dismayed.
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Were you angry, O Lord, with the rivers? or was your anger against the rivers, or
yours Or, attach anger against the sea? for you will mount on your horses, and your chariots are salvation.
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Surely you did bend the bow at scepters, says the Lord. Pause. The land of rivers
shall be torn asunder.
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The nations shall see you and be in pain, as you do divide the Gr. waters of going; See Na 1:8. moving waters: the deep uttered
her voice, and raised Lit. the height of her form her form on high.
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The sun was exalted, and the moon stood still in her course: your darts shall go forth
at the light, at the brightness of the gleaming of your arms.
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You will bring low the land with threatening, and in anger you will break down the
nations.
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You went forth for the salvation of your people, to save your anointed: you shall
bring death on the heads of transgressors; you has brought bands upon their neck.
Pause.
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You did cut asunder the heads of princes with amazement, they shall tremble in it;
they shall burst their bridles, they shall be as a poor man devouring in secret.
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And you do cause your horses to enter the sea, disturbing much water.
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I watched, and my belly trembled at the sound of the prayer of my lips, and trembling
entered into my bones, and my frame was troubled within Lit. under me me; I will rest in the day of affliction, from going
up to the people of my sojourning.
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For though the fig-tree shall bear no fruit, and there shall be no produce on the
vines; the labour of the olive shall Lit. deceive fail, and the fields shall produce no food: the sheep have failed from the
pasture,
and there are no oxen at the cribs;
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yet I will exult in the Lord, I will joy in God my Saviour.
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The Lord God is my strength, and he will perfectly strengthen my feet; he mounts me
upon high places, that I may conquer by his song.