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Sunday, August 17th, 2025
the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
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Habakkuk 3:15

But you marched your horses through the deep water, stirring up the mud.

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

Christian Standard Bible®
You tread the sea with your horses,stirring up the vast water.
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.
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

3 God is coming from Teman. The Holy One is coming from Mount Paran. Selah His glory covers the heavens, and his praise fills the earth! 4 Rays of light shine from his hand, a bright, shining light. There is such power hiding in that hand. 5 The sickness went before him, and the destroyer followed behind him. 6 He stood and judged the earth. He looked at the people of all the nations, and they shook with fear. For many years the mountains stood strong, but those mountains fell to pieces. Those old, old hills fell down. God has always been able to do that. 7 I saw that the cities of Cushan were in trouble and that the houses of Midian trembled with fear. 8 Lord , were you angry at the rivers? Were you angry at the streams? Were you angry at the sea? Were you angry when you rode your horses and chariots to victory? 9 Even then you showed your rainbow. It was proof of your agreement with the families of the earth. Selah And the dry land split the rivers. 10 The mountains saw you and shook. The water flowed off the land. The water from the sea made a loud noise as it lost its power over the land. 11 The sun and the moon lost their brightness. They stopped shining when they saw your bright flashes of lightning. That lightning was like spears and arrows shooting through the air. 12 In anger you walked on the earth and punished the nations.

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
The snake was the most clever of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. The snake spoke to the woman and said, "Woman, did God really tell you that you must not eat from any tree in the garden?"
Genesis 3:3
But there is one tree we must not eat from. God told us, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden. You must not even touch that tree, or you will die.'"
Genesis 3:4
But the snake said to the woman, "You will not die.
Genesis 3:6
The woman could see that the tree was beautiful and the fruit looked so good to eat. She also liked the idea that it would make her wise. So she took some of the fruit from the tree and ate it. Her husband was there with her, so she gave him some of the fruit, and he ate it.
Genesis 3:7
Then it was as if their eyes opened, and they saw things differently. They saw that they were naked. So they got some fig leaves, sewed them together, and wore them for clothes.
Genesis 3:8
During the cool part of the day, the Lord God was walking in the garden. The man and the woman heard him, and they hid among the trees in the garden.
Genesis 3:10
The man said, "I heard you walking in the garden, and I was afraid. I was naked, so I hid."
Genesis 3:13
Then the Lord God said to the woman, "What have you done?" She said, "The snake tricked me, so I ate the fruit."
Genesis 3:14
So the Lord God said to the snake, "You did this very bad thing, so bad things will happen to you. It will be worse for you than for any other animal. You must crawl on your belly and eat dust all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:15
I will make you and the woman enemies to each other. Your children and her children will be enemies. You will bite her child's foot, but he will crush your head."

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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