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Habakkuk 3:13

Habakkuk 3:13 is verse 13 of Habakkuk chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

You went forth for the salvation of Your people, to save Your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of the wicked and stripped him from head to toe. Selah

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King James Version

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.

World English Bible

You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the land of wickedness. You stripped them head to foot. Selah.

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Habakkuk 3:11–15 · Berean Standard Bible

11 Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.

12 You marched across the earth with fury; You threshed the nations in wrath.

13 You went forth for the salvation of Your people, to save Your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of the wicked and stripped him from head to toe. Selah

14 With his own spear You pierced his head, when his warriors stormed out to scatter us, gloating as though ready to secretly devour the weak.

15 You trampled the sea with Your horses, churning the great waters.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Exodus 14:13

But Moses told the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the LORD’s salvation, which He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians you see today, you will never see again.

Exodus 14:14

The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.”

Exodus 15:1

Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD: “I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted. The horse and rider He has thrown into the sea.

Exodus 15:2

The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.

Psalms 68:7

O God, when You went out before Your people, when You marched through the wasteland, Selah

Psalms 68:19

Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden, the God of our salvation. Selah

Psalms 68:20

Our God is a God of deliverance; the Lord GOD is our rescuer from death.

Psalms 68:21

Surely God will crush the heads of His enemies, the hairy crowns of those who persist in guilty ways.

Psalms 68:22

The Lord said, “I will retrieve them from Bashan, I will bring them up from the depths of the sea,

Psalms 68:23

that your foot may be dipped in the blood of your foes— the tongues of your dogs in the same.”

Psalms 77:20

You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Psalms 89:19

You once spoke in a vision; to Your godly ones You said, “I have bestowed help on a warrior; I have exalted one chosen from the people.

Psalms 89:20

I have found My servant David; with My sacred oil I have anointed him.

Psalms 89:21

My hand will sustain him; surely My arm will strengthen him.

Psalms 99:6

Moses and Aaron were among His priests; Samuel was among those who called on His name. They called to the LORD and He answered.

Psalms 105:15

“Do not touch My anointed ones! Do no harm to My prophets!”

Psalms 105:26

He sent Moses His servant, and Aaron, whom He had chosen.

Isaiah 63:11

Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,

Exodus 12:29

Now at midnight the LORD struck down every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn among the livestock.

Exodus 12:30

During the night Pharaoh got up—he and all his officials and all the Egyptians—and there was loud wailing in Egypt; for there was no house without someone dead.

Joshua 10:11

As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.

Joshua 10:24

When they had brought the kings to Joshua, he summoned all the men of Israel and said to the army commanders who had accompanied him, “Come here and put your feet on the necks of these kings.” So the commanders came forward and put their feet on their necks.

Joshua 10:42

And because the LORD, the God of Israel, fought for Israel, Joshua captured all these kings and their land in one campaign.

Joshua 11:8

and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who struck them down and pursued them all the way to Greater Sidon and Misrephoth-maim, and eastward as far as the Valley of Mizpeh. They struck them down, leaving no survivors.

Joshua 11:12

Joshua captured all these kings and their cities and put them to the sword. He devoted them to destruction, as Moses the LORD’s servant had commanded.

Psalms 18:37

I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back until they were consumed.

Psalms 18:38

I crushed them so they could not rise; they have fallen under my feet.

Psalms 18:39

You have armed me with strength for battle; You have subdued my foes beneath me.

Psalms 18:40

You have made my enemies retreat before me; I put an end to those who hated me.

Psalms 18:41

They cried for help, but there was no one to save them— to the LORD, but He did not answer.

Psalms 18:42

I ground them as dust in the face of the wind; I trampled them like mud in the streets.

Psalms 18:43

You have delivered me from the strife of the people; You have made me the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.

Psalms 18:44

When they hear me, they obey me; foreigners cower before me.

Psalms 18:45

Foreigners lose heart and come trembling from their strongholds.

Psalms 74:13

You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;

Psalms 74:14

You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.

Psalms 110:6

He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead; He will crush the leaders far and wide.

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