Habakkuk 3:12

Wycliffe Bible

In gnastyng thou schalt defoule erthe, and in strong veniaunce thou schalt astonye folkis.

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.

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 schal come fro the south, and the hooli fro the mount of Faran. The glorie of hym kyueride heuenes, and the erthe is ful of his heriyng. ⁴ The schynyng of hym schal be as liyt; hornes in hondis of hym. ⁵ There the strengthe of hym was hid, deth schal go bifore his face; the deuel schal go out bifore hise feet. ⁶ He stood, and mat the erthe; he bihelde, and vnboond folkis, and hillis of the world weren al to-brokun; the litle hillis of the world weren bowid doun, of the weies of his euerlastyngnesse. ⁷ For wickidnesse Y saiy the tentis of Ethiope, the skynnes of the lond of Madian schulen be troblid. ⁸ Lord, whether in floodis thou art wrooth, ether in floodis is thi strong veniaunce, ether in the see is thin indignacioun? Which shalt stie on thin horsis; and thi foure horsid cartis is saluacioun. ⁹ Thou reisynge schalt reise thi bouwe, othis to lynagis whiche thou hast spoke; thou schalt departe the floodis of erthe. ¹⁰ Watris saien thee, and hillis sorewiden, the goter of watris passide; depnesse yaf his vois, hiynesse reiside hise hondis. ¹¹ The sunne and moone stoden in her dwellyng place; in the liyt of thin arowis thei schulen go, in the schynyng of thi spere glisnynge. ¹² In gnastyng thou schalt defoule erthe, and in strong veniaunce thou schalt astonye folkis.

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 seide, It is not good that a man be aloone, make we to hym an help lijk to hym silf.

Genesis 2:20
And Adam clepide bi her names alle lyuynge thingis, and alle volatils, and alle vnresonable beestis of erthe. Forsothe to Adam was not foundun an helpere lijk hym.

Genesis 2:22
And the Lord God bildide the rib which he hadde take fro Adam in to a womman, and brouyte hir to Adam.

Genesis 3:13
And the Lord seide to the womman, Whi didist thou this thing? Which answerde, The serpent disseyued me, and Y eet.

Genesis 3:15
Y schal sette enemytees bitwixe thee and the womman, and bitwixe thi seed and hir seed; sche schal breke thin heed, and thou schalt sette aspies to hir heele.

Genesis 3:20
And Adam clepide the name of his wijf Eue, for sche was the moder of alle men lyuynge.

Genesis 3:21
And the Lord God made cootis of skynnys to Adam and Eue his wijf, and clothide hem; and seide, Lo!

Genesis 3:24
And God castide out Adam, and settide bifore paradis of lykyng cherubyn, and a swerd of flawme and turnynge aboute to kepe the weie of the tre of lijf.

Job 31:33
if Y as man hidde my synne, and helide my wickidnesse in my bosum;

Proverbs 19:3
The foli of a man disseyueth hise steppis; and he brenneth in his soule ayens God.

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.