Habakkuk 3:12

THE MESSAGE

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.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou trodest downe the land in anger: [and] dyddest threshe the heathen in displeasure.

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

³God's on his way again, retracing the old salvation route, Coming up from the south through Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Skies are blazing with his splendor, his praises sounding through the earth, His cloud-brightness like dawn, exploding, spreading, forked-lightning shooting from his hand— what power hidden in that fist! Plague marches before him, pestilence at his heels! He stops. He shakes Earth. He looks around. Nations tremble. The age-old mountains fall to pieces; ancient hills collapse like a spent balloon. The paths God takes are older than the oldest mountains and hills. I saw everyone worried, in a panic: Old wilderness adversaries, Cushan and Midian, were terrified, hoping he wouldn't notice them. ⁸ God , is it River you're mad at? Angry at old River? Were you raging at Sea when you rode horse and chariot through to salvation? You unfurled your bow and let loose a volley of arrows. You split Earth with rivers. Mountains saw what was coming. They twisted in pain. Flood Waters poured in. Ocean roared and reared huge waves. Sun and Moon stopped in their tracks. Your flashing arrows stopped them, your lightning-strike spears impaled them. Angry, you stomped through Earth. Furious, you crushed the godless nations. You were out to save your people, to save your specially chosen people. You beat the stuffing out of King Wicked, Stripped him naked from head to toe, Set his severed head on his own spear and blew away his army. Scattered they were to the four winds— and ended up food for the sharks! You galloped through the Sea on your horses, racing on the crest of the waves. When I heard it, my stomach did flips. I stammered and stuttered. My bones turned to water. I staggered and stumbled. I sit back and wait for Doomsday to descend on our attackers.

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
God said, "It's not good for the Man to be alone; I'll make him a helper, a companion." So God formed from the dirt of the ground all the animals of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the Man to see what he would name them. Whatever the Man called each living creature, that was its name. The Man named the cattle, named the birds of the air, named the wild animals; but he didn't find a suitable companion.

Genesis 3:13
"The serpent seduced me," she said, "and I ate."

Genesis 3:20
The Man, known as Adam, named his wife Eve because she was the mother of all the living.

Genesis 3:21
God made leather clothing for Adam and his wife and dressed them.

Proverbs 19:3
People ruin their lives by their own stupidity, so why does God always get blamed?

Proverbs 28:13
You can't whitewash your sins and get by with it; you find mercy by admitting and leaving them.

Luke 10:29
Looking for a loophole, he asked, "And just how would you define ‘neighbor'?"

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.