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The Book of Habakkuk, Chapter 3, Verse 4

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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.
King James Version
And [his] brightness was as the light; he had horns [coming] out of his hand: and there [was] the hiding of his power.
American Standard Version
And [his] brightness was as the light; He had rays [coming forth] from his hand; And there was the hiding of his power.
New English Translation
His brightness will be as lightning; a two-pronged lightning bolt flashing from his hand. This is the outward display of his power.
World English Bible
His splendor is like the sunrise. Rays shine from his hand, where his power is hidden.
5
Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.
6
He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: 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] thine anger against the rivers? [was] thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses [and] thy chariots of salvation?
9
Thy bow was made quite naked, [according] to the oaths of the tribes, [even thy] word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
10
The mountains saw thee, [and] they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, [and] lifted up his hands on high.
11
The sun [and] moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, [and] at the shining of thy glittering spear.
12
Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
13
Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, [even] for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.
14
Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing [was] as to devour the poor secretly.