Bible Strands
Habakkuk 3:10
The mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The prophet Habakkuk addresses God in a visionary prayer, depicting a theophanic moment that echoes past deliverance and anticipates impending judgment.
The words — The text records te.hOm (the deep) roaring and lifting its hands, while ya.Chi.lu (they writhe) describes the mountains' physical reaction to divine presence.
The thread — Creation's responsive posture appears in Psalms 93:3 and 98:7, while Joshua 4:23 describes the Lord actively drying the Jordan waters to enable Israel's crossing.
Why it lands — The passage requires the reader to acknowledge God's absolute authority over natural forces and to align personal posture with His sovereign actions.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
Cross-references
- Joshua 4:23 For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, just as He did to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed over.
- Psalms 93:3 The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.
- Psalms 98:7 Let the sea resound, and all that fills it, the world, and all who dwell in it.
- Isaiah 43:20 The beasts of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I provide water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people.
- Jeremiah 4:24 I looked at the mountains, and behold, they were quaking; all the hills were swaying.
- Joshua 4:18 When the priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD came up out of the Jordan and their feet touched the dry land, the waters of the Jordan returned to their course and overflowed all the banks as before.
- Hebrews 11:29 By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to follow, they were drowned.
- Exodus 19:16 On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning. A thick cloud was upon the mountain, and a very loud blast of the ram’s horn went out, so that all the people in the camp trembled.
- Psalms 74:13 You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;
- Psalms 136:13 He divided the Red Sea in two His loving devotion endures forever.