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The Book of Habakkuk, Chapter 3, Verse 5

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And [his] brightness was as the light; he had horns [coming] out of his hand: and there [was] the hiding of his power.
King James Version
Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.
American Standard Version
Before him went the pestilence, And fiery bolts went forth at his feet.
New English Translation
Plague will go before him; pestilence will march right behind him.
World English Bible
Plague went before him, and pestilence followed his feet.
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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.
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I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: [and] the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
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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?
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Thy bow was made quite naked, [according] to the oaths of the tribes, [even thy] word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
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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.
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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.
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Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
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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.
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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.
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Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, [through] the heap of great waters.