1. A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.
2. O LORD, I have heard your speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive your work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.
3. God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.
4. And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
5. Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.
6. He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and split the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills sank down: his ways are everlasting.
7. I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
8. Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was your anger against the rivers? was your wrath against the sea, that you rode upon your horses and your chariots of salvation?
9. Your bow was made entirely naked, according to the oaths made to the tribes, even your word. Selah. You divided the earth with rivers.
10. The mountains saw you, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered its voice, and lifted up its hands on high.
11. The sun and moon stood still in their habitation at the light of your arrows as they went, and at the shining of your glittering spear.
12. You marched through the land in indignation, you threshed the heathen in anger.
13. You went forth for the salvation of your people, even for salvation with your anointed; you wounded the head out of the house of the wicked, by uncovering the foundation to the neck. Selah.
14. You struck through with his rods the chief of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
15. You walked through the sea with your horses, through the heap of great waters.
16. When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he comes up to the people, he will invade them with his troops.
17. Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no food; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
18. Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
19. The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like deers' feet, and he will make me to walk upon my high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.