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You got ready to use your bow,
    ready to shoot your arrows.[a]
Your lightning split open the earth.
10 When the mountains saw you, they trembled;
    water poured down from the skies.
The waters under the earth roared,
    and their waves rose high.
11 At the flash of your speeding arrows
    and the gleam of your shining spear,
    the sun and the moon stood still.

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 3:9 Probable text ready to shoot your arrows; Hebrew unclear.

You uncovered your bow,
    you called for many arrows.(A)
You split the earth with rivers;
10     the mountains saw you and writhed.(B)
Torrents of water swept by;
    the deep roared(C)
    and lifted its waves(D) on high.

11 Sun and moon stood still(E) in the heavens
    at the glint of your flying arrows,(F)
    at the lightning(G) of your flashing spear.

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