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Habakkuk 3:12

Thou trodest downe the land in anger: [and] dyddest threshe the heathen in displeasure.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Readings, Select;   Scofield Reference Index - Bible Prayers;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Heathen, the;   Threshing;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Habakkuk;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Self-Seeking;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Joshua, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Habakkuk;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms;   Selah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Hymn;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Thresh;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Beth-Horon, the Battle of;   Habakkuk;   Threshing;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Poetry;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You march across the earth with indignation;you trample down the nations in wrath.
Hebrew Names Version
You marched through the land in wrath. You threshed the nations in anger.
King James Version (1611)
Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
King James Version
Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
English Standard Version
You marched through the earth in fury; you threshed the nations in anger.
New American Standard Bible
In indignation You marched through the earth; In anger You trampled the nations.
New Century Version
In anger you marched on the earth; in anger you punished the nations.
Amplified Bible
In indignation You marched through the earth; In anger You trampled and threshed the nations.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou trodest downe the land in anger, and didest thresh the heathen in displeasure.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
In indignation You marched through the earth; In anger You trampled the nations.
Legacy Standard Bible
In indignation You marched through the earth;In anger You trampled the nations.
Berean Standard Bible
You marched across the earth with fury; You threshed the nations in wrath.
Contemporary English Version
In your furious anger, you trampled on nations
Complete Jewish Bible
In fury you stride across the land, in anger you trample the nations.
Darby Translation
Thou didst march through the land in indignation, Thou didst thresh the nations in anger.
Easy-to-Read Version
In anger you walked on the earth and punished the nations.
George Lamsa Translation
Thou didst tread upon the earth in thy indignation, thou didst thresh the nations in thine anger.
Good News Translation
You marched across the earth in anger; in fury you trampled the nations.
Lexham English Bible
In fury you marched through the earth; in anger you trampled the nations.
Literal Translation
You go into the land in fury. You thresh nations in anger.
American Standard Version
Thou didst march through the land in indignation; Thou didst thresh the nations in anger.
Bible in Basic English
You went stepping through the land in wrath, crushing the nations in your passion.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou marchest through the earth in indignation, Thou threshest the nations in anger.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou wilt bring low the land with threatening, and in wrath thou wilt break down the nations.
English Revised Version
Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the nations in anger.
World English Bible
You marched through the land in wrath. You threshed the nations in anger.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
In gnastyng thou schalt defoule erthe, and in strong veniaunce thou schalt astonye folkis.
Update Bible Version
You marched though the land in indignation; You threshed the nations in anger.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
New English Translation
You furiously stomp on the earth, you angrily trample down the nations.
New King James Version
You marched through the land in indignation; You trampled the nations in anger.
New Living Translation
You marched across the land in anger and trampled the nations in your fury.
New Life Bible
You walked over the earth in Your anger. In anger You crushed the nations under foot.
New Revised Standard
In fury you trod the earth, in anger you trampled nations.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
In wrath, dost thou stride through the land, - in anger, dost thou thresh the nations.
Douay-Rheims Bible
In thy anger thou wilt tread the earth under foot: in thy wrath thou wilt astonish the nations.
Revised Standard Version
Thou didst bestride the earth in fury, thou didst trample the nations in anger.
Young's Literal Translation
In indignation Thou dost tread earth, In anger Thou dost thresh nations.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou trodest downe the londe in thine anger, and didest throsshe the Heithen in thy displeasure.

Contextual Overview

3 God commeth from Theman, and the holy one from mount Paran, Selah. his glorie couereth the heauens, and the earth is full of his prayse. 4 And [his] brightnesse was as the light: he had hornes [comming] out of his handes, and there was the hyding of his power. 5 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coales went foorth before his feete. 6 He stoode, and measured the earth, he behelde, and dissolued the nations, and the euerlasting mountaynes were broken, and the auncient hilles did bowe, his wayes are euerlasting. 7 For iniquitie I saw the tentes of Chusan, [and] the curtaynes of the lande of Madian dyd tremble. 8 Was the Lorde angry against the riuers? or was thyne anger against the floodes? or was thy wrath against the sea, that thou diddest ryde vpon thy horses? thy charets [brought] saluation. 9 Thy bow was manyfestly reuealed, and the othes of the tribes [were] a sure word. Selah. thou diddest cleaue the earth with riuers. 10 The mountaynes sawe thee and they trembled, the streame of the water passed by, the deepe made a noyse, and lift vp his handes on hye. 11 The sonne [and] moone stoode still in [their] habitation, at the light of thyne arrowes they went, [and] at the bright shining of thy speares. 12 Thou trodest downe the land in anger: [and] dyddest threshe the heathen in displeasure.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

didst march: Numbers 21:23-35, Joshua 6:1 - Joshua 12:24, Nehemiah 9:22-24, Psalms 44:1-3, Psalms 78:55, Acts 13:19

thresh: Jeremiah 51:33, Amos 1:3, Micah 4:12, Micah 4:13

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 9:20 - driving Psalms 68:7 - thou didst Psalms 74:12 - working Psalms 94:10 - he correct Isaiah 21:10 - my threshing Isaiah 30:28 - an overflowing Isaiah 41:15 - I will make

Cross-References

Genesis 2:18
And the Lord God sayde: It is not good yt the man should be alone, I wyll make hym an helpe lyke vnto hym.
Genesis 2:20
And the man gaue names to all cattell, and foule of the ayre, & euery beast of the fielde: but for man founde he not an helpe lyke vnto hym.
Genesis 2:22
And the ribbe which the lord god had taken from man, made he a woman, & brought her vnto the man.
Genesis 3:13
And the Lord God sayd vnto the woman: Why hast thou done this? And the woman sayde: the serpent begyled me, and I dyd eate.
Genesis 3:15
I wyll also put enmitie betweene thee & the woman, betweene thy seede and her seede: and it shall treade downe thy head, and thou shalt treade vpon his heele.
Genesis 3:20
And Adam called his wyfes name Heua, because she was the mother of all lyuyng.
Genesis 3:21
Unto Adam also and to his wyfe dyd the Lorde God make garments of skynnes, and he put them on.
Genesis 3:24
And so he droue out man, and at the east side of the garde of Eden he set Cherubins, and a fierie two edged sworde, to kepe the way of the tree of lyfe.
Job 31:33
Haue I kept secrete my sinne, and hyd myne iniquitie, as Adam dyd?
Proverbs 19:3
The foolishnesse of man paruerteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the Lorde.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou didst march through the land with indignation,.... Not the land of Canaan, fighting against the inhabitants of it, dispossessing them to make room for the Israelites, whatever allusion may be to it; but the antichristian land, the whole Romish jurisdiction, and all the states of it, through which the Lord will march in wrath and fury, when he pours out the vials of it upon them; or this is desired, and prayed for; for it may be rendered, "do thou march through the land" r, c. foreseeing and believing that he would:

thou didst thresh the heathen in anger; or, "do thou thresh" s, c. these are the Papists, called heathens and Gentiles in Scripture, because of the heathenish customs and practices they have introduced into the Christian religion, Psalms 10:16 these are the nations that will be gathered together like sheaves of grain on a floor to be threshed; and when Zion the church of Christ, and Christian princes, will be called upon to arise, and thresh them; and the Lord by them will do it, namely, separate his own people from them, which are like wheat, and utterly destroy them, as chaff and stubble, Micah 4:12.

r תצעד "progredlaris", Van Till. s תדוש "tritures", Van Till.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou didst march the earth in indignation - The word “tread” is used of very solemn manifestations of God, (Judges 5:4; Psalms 68:8; of the procession of the ark, 2 Samuel 6:13. It is denied as to the idols, Jeremiah 10:5.) of His going to give to His own victory over their enemies Not the land only, as of old, but the earth is the scene of His judgments; the earth which was “full of His praise,” which He “meted out” Habakkuk 3:3, Habakkuk 3:6 which contained the nations whom He chastened, the whole earth.

Thou dost thresh the heathen in anger - Not then only, but at all times unto the end, distress of nations and perplexity are among the shoots of the fig tree, which betoken that the everlasting, Luke 21:25-31, “summer is nigh at hand.” Jerusalem, when it had slain the Prince of Life, was given over to desolation and counted like the pagan. It became the synagogue, not the Church; and so in the destruction of Jerusalem (as it is an image of the destruction of the world) was that again fulfilled, “Thou dost march through the earth in indignation, Thou dost thresh the heathen in anger.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Habakkuk 3:12. Thou didst march through the land — This refers to the conquest of Canaan. God is represented as going at the head of his people as general-in-chief; and leading them on from conquest to conquest-which was the fact.

Thou didst thresh the heathen in anger. — Thou didst tread them down, as the oxen do the sheaves on the threshing-floor.


 
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