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Habakkuk 3:15

You tread the sea with your horses,stirring up the vast water.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Anthropomorphisms;   Scofield Reference Index - Bible Prayers;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Habakkuk;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms;   Selah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Hymn;   Walk (2);  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Habakkuk;   Heap;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Poetry;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You trampled the sea with your horses, Churning mighty waters.
King James Version (1611)
Thou didst walke through the Sea with thine horses, through the heape of great waters.
King James Version
Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters.
English Standard Version
You trampled the sea with your horses, the surging of mighty waters.
New American Standard Bible
You trampled on the sea with Your horses, On the foam of many waters.
New Century Version
But you marched through the sea with your horses, stirring the great waters.
Amplified Bible
You have trampled on the sea with Your horses, On the surge of many waters.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou didest walke in the sea with thine horses vpon the heape of great waters.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
You trampled on the sea with Your horses, On the surge of many waters.
Legacy Standard Bible
You tread on the sea with Your horses,On the surge of many waters.
Berean Standard Bible
You trampled the sea with Your horses, churning the great waters.
Contemporary English Version
Then your chariots churned the waters of the sea.
Complete Jewish Bible
You tread down the sea with your horses, churning up the mighty waters.
Darby Translation
Thou didst walk through the sea with thy horses, The heap of great waters.
Easy-to-Read Version
But you marched your horses through the deep water, stirring up the mud.
George Lamsa Translation
Thou didst tread upon the sea with thy horses, through the heap of great waters.
Good News Translation
You trampled the sea with your horses, and the mighty waters foamed.
Lexham English Bible
You trampled upon the sea with your horses, the churning of many waters.
Literal Translation
You trod in the sea with Your horses, the surging of many waters.
American Standard Version
Thou didst tread the sea with thy horses, The heap of mighty waters.
Bible in Basic English
The feet of your horses were on the sea, on the mass of great waters.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou hast trodden the sea with Thy horses, the foaming of mighty waters.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou diddest walke in the sea with thyne horses, vpon the heape of great waters.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thou dost cause thine horses to enter the sea, disturbing much water.
English Revised Version
Thou didst tread the sea with thine horses, the heap of mighty waters.
World English Bible
You trampled the sea with your horses, Churning mighty waters.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou madist a weie in the see to thin horsis, in clei of many watris.
Update Bible Version
You trod the sea with your horses, The heap of mighty waters.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thou didst walk through the sea with thy horses, [through] the mire of great waters.
New English Translation
But you trample on the sea with your horses, on the surging, raging waters.
New King James Version
You walked through the sea with Your horses, Through the heap of great waters.
New Living Translation
You trampled the sea with your horses, and the mighty waters piled high.
New Life Bible
You stepped on the sea with Your horses, on the waves of many waters.
New Revised Standard
You trampled the sea with your horses, churning the mighty waters.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thou hast driven, into the sea, thy chariot-horses. Foaming are the mighty waters!
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou madest a way in the sea for thy horses, in the mud of many waters.
Revised Standard Version
Thou didst trample the sea with thy horses, the surging of mighty waters.
Young's Literal Translation
Thou hast proceeded through the sea with Thy horses -- the clay of many waters.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou makest a waye for thine horses in the see, euen in the mudde of greate waters.

Contextual Overview

3God comes from Teman,the Holy One from Mount Paran.SelahHis splendor covers the heavens,and the earth is full of his praise. 4His brilliance is like light;rays are flashing from his hand.This is where his power is hidden. 5Plague goes before him,and pestilence follows in his steps. 6He stands and shakes the earth;he looks and startles the nations.The age-old mountains break apart;the ancient hills sink down.His pathways are ancient. 7I see the tents of Cushan in distress;the tent curtains of the land of Midian tremble. 8Are you angry at the rivers, Lord?Is your wrath against the rivers?Or is your rage against the seawhen you ride on your horses,your victorious chariot? 9You took the sheath from your bow;the arrows are ready to be used with an oath.SelahYou split the earth with rivers. 10The mountains see you and shudder;a downpour of water sweeps by.The deep roars with its voiceand lifts its waves high. 11Sun and moon stand still in their lofty residence,at the flash of your flying arrows,at the brightness of your shining spear. 12You march across the earth with indignation;you trample down the nations in wrath.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

walk: Habakkuk 3:8, Psalms 77:19

heap: or, mud

Reciprocal: Joshua 3:13 - stand upon Psalms 33:7 - heap Psalms 77:16 - General Psalms 78:13 - made Psalms 114:3 - sea Isaiah 63:13 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?”
Genesis 3:3
But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.’”
Genesis 3:4
“No! You will not die,” the serpent said to the woman.
Genesis 3:6
The woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
Genesis 3:7
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
Genesis 3:8
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
Genesis 3:10
And he said, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”
Genesis 3:13
So the Lord God asked the woman, “What is this you have done?”
Genesis 3:14
So the Lord God said to the serpent:
Genesis 3:15
I will put hostility between you and the woman,and between your offspring and her offspring.He will strike your head,and you will strike his heel.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses,.... And as thou didst of old, so do again; as Jehovah walked through the Red sea in a pillar of cloud and fire, which were his horses and chariots, and destroyed the Egyptians; so may he walk through another sea by his instruments, and destroy the enemies of his church and people; :-. The "sea" here signifies the world, compared to it for the multitude of its people; the noise, fluctuation, and uncertainty of all things in it; and particularly the Roman empire, the sea out of which the antichristian beast arose, Revelation 13:1. The "horses" are the angels or Christian princes, with whom the Lord will walk in majesty, and in the greatness of his strength, pouring out the vials of his wrath on the antichristian states:

through the heap of many waters; or "the clay", or "mud of many waters" w; that lies at the bottom of them; which being walked through and trampled on by horses, is raised up, and "troubles" them, as the Septuagint and Arabic versions render it: these "many waters" are those on which the whore of Rome is said to sit; and which are interpreted of people, multitudes, nations, and tongues,

Revelation 17:1 and the "mud" of them is expressive of their pollution and corruption, with her false doctrines, idolatry, superstition, and immoralities; and of their disturbed state and condition, through the judgments of God upon them, signified by his horses walking through them; trampling upon them in fury; treating them with the utmost contempt; treading them like mire and clay, and bringing upon them utter ruin and destruction.

w חמר מים רבים "in luto aquarum multarum", Tigurine version; "calcasti lutum aquarum multarum", Cocceius, Van Till; "lutum, aquae multae", Burkius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou didst walk through the sea with Thine horses - God Himself is pictured as leading them on the way, Himself at the head of their multitude, having, as Asaph said of old “His path in the sea.” So Isaiah Isaiah 63:13. “who leddest them in the depths;” and Zechariah Zechariah 10:11. “And he shall pass through the sea.” God was literally there; for Acts 17:28. “in Him we live and move and have our being.” He who “is wholly everywhere but the whole of Him nowhere” manifested His Presence there. Such anthropomorphisms have a truth, which people’s favorite abstractions have not.

Through the heap - o of great waters as of old Exodus 15:8; Psalms 78:13. “the waters stood us a heap, and He made the waters to stand a a heap.” The very hindrances to deliverance are in God’s hands a way for His ends. The waves of the Red Sea rose in heaps, yet this was but a readier way for the salvation of His people and the destruction of their enemies. Dion.: “God prepareth ever a way for His elect in this present evil world, and leadeth them along the narrow way which leadeth unto life.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Habakkuk 3:15. Thou didst walk through the sea — There was no occasion to hurry across; all was safe, for God had divided the waters: and his terrible cloud had removed from before, and stood behind them, so that it was between them and the Egyptians. See Exodus 14:19-20.


 
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