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Habakkuk 3:6
Habakkuk 3:6 is verse 6 of Habakkuk chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal.
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Habakkuk 3:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible
4 His radiance was like the sunlight; rays flashed from His hand, where His power is hidden.
5 Plague went before Him, and fever followed in His steps.
6 He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.
7 I saw the tents of Cushan in distress; the curtains of Midian were trembling.
8 Were You angry at the rivers, O LORD? Was Your wrath against the streams? Did You rage against the sea when You rode on Your horses, on Your chariots of salvation?
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Cross-references
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Exodus 15:17You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of Your inheritance— the place, O LORD, You have prepared for Your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, Your hands have established.
Exodus 21:31If the ox gores a son or a daughter, it shall be done to him according to the same rule.
Numbers 34:1Then the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 34:2“Command the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, it will be allotted to you as an inheritance with these boundaries:
Numbers 34:3Your southern border will extend from the Wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom. On the east, your southern border will run from the end of the Salt Sea,
Numbers 34:4cross south of the Ascent of Akrabbim, continue to Zin, and go south of Kadesh-barnea. Then it will go on to Hazar-addar and proceed to Azmon,
Numbers 34:5where it will turn from Azmon, join the Brook of Egypt, and end at the Sea.
Numbers 34:6Your western border will be the coastline of the Great Sea; this will be your boundary on the west.
Numbers 34:7Your northern border will run from the Great Sea directly to Mount Hor,
Numbers 34:8and from Mount Hor to Lebo-hamath, then extend to Zedad,
Numbers 34:9continue to Ziphron, and end at Hazar-enan. This will be your boundary on the north.
Numbers 34:10And your eastern border will run straight from Hazar-enan to Shepham,
Numbers 34:11then go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain and continue along the slopes east of the Sea of Chinnereth.
Numbers 34:12Then the border will go down along the Jordan and end at the Salt Sea. This will be your land, defined by its borders on all sides.”
Numbers 34:13So Moses commanded the Israelites, “Apportion this land by lot as an inheritance. The LORD has commanded that it be given to the nine and a half tribes.
Numbers 34:14For the tribes of the Reubenites and Gadites, along with the half-tribe of Manasseh, have already received their inheritance.
Numbers 34:15These two and a half tribes have received their inheritance across the Jordan from Jericho, toward the sunrise.”
Numbers 34:16Then the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 34:17“These are the names of the men who are to assign the land as an inheritance for you: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.
Numbers 34:18Appoint one leader from each tribe to distribute the land.
Numbers 34:19These are their names: Caleb son of Jephunneh from the tribe of Judah;
Numbers 34:20Shemuel son of Ammihud from the tribe of Simeon;
Numbers 34:21Elidad son of Chislon from the tribe of Benjamin;
Numbers 34:22Bukki son of Jogli, a leader from the tribe of Dan;
Numbers 34:23Hanniel son of Ephod, a leader from the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph;
Numbers 34:24Kemuel son of Shiphtan, a leader from the tribe of Ephraim;
Numbers 34:25Eli-zaphan son of Parnach, a leader from the tribe of Zebulun;
Numbers 34:26Paltiel son of Azzan, a leader from the tribe of Issachar;
Numbers 34:27Ahihud son of Shelomi, a leader from the tribe of Asher;
Numbers 34:28and Pedahel son of Ammihud, a leader from the tribe of Naphtali.”
Numbers 34:29These are the ones whom the LORD commanded to apportion the inheritance to the Israelites in the land of Canaan.
Deuteronomy 32:8When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
Acts 17:26From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.
Joshua 10:42And because the LORD, the God of Israel, fought for Israel, Joshua captured all these kings and their land in one campaign.
Joshua 11:18Joshua waged war against all these kings for a long period of time.
Joshua 11:19No city made peace with the Israelites except the Hivites living in Gibeon; all others were taken in battle.
Joshua 11:20For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts to engage Israel in battle, so that they would be set apart for destruction and would receive no mercy, being annihilated as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Joshua 11:21At that time Joshua proceeded to eliminate the Anakim from the hill country of Hebron, Debir, and Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah and of Israel. Joshua devoted them to destruction, along with their cities.
Joshua 11:22No Anakim were left in the land of the Israelites; only in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod did any survive.
Joshua 11:23So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the LORD had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to the allotments to their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.
Nehemiah 9:22You gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner of the land. So they took the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and of Og king of Bashan.
Nehemiah 9:23You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to enter and possess.
Nehemiah 9:24So their descendants went in and possessed the land; You subdued before them the Canaanites dwelling in the land. You delivered into their hands the kings and peoples of the land, to do with them as they wished.
Psalms 135:8He struck down the firstborn of Egypt, of both man and beast.
Psalms 135:9He sent signs and wonders into your midst, O Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his servants.
Psalms 135:10He struck down many nations and slaughtered mighty kings:
Psalms 135:11Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kings of Canaan.
Psalms 135:12He gave their land as an inheritance, as a heritage to His people Israel.
Habakkuk 3:10The mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high.
Genesis 49:26The blessings of your father have surpassed the blessings of the ancient mountains and the bounty of the everlasting hills. May they rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince of his brothers.
Deuteronomy 33:15with the best of the ancient mountains and the bounty of the everlasting hills,
Judges 5:5The mountains quaked before the LORD, the One of Sinai, before the LORD, the God of Israel.
Psalms 68:16Why do you gaze in envy, O mountains of many peaks? This is the mountain God chose for His dwelling, where the LORD will surely dwell forever.
Psalms 114:4the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
Psalms 114:5Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,
Psalms 114:6O mountains, that you skipped like rams, O hills, like lambs?
Psalms 114:7Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
Isaiah 64:1If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,
Isaiah 64:2as fire kindles the brushwood and causes the water to boil, to make Your name known to Your enemies, so that the nations will tremble at Your presence!
Isaiah 64:3When You did awesome works that we did not expect, You came down, and the mountains trembled at Your presence.
Nahum 1:5The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence— the world and all its dwellers.
Zechariah 14:4On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half the mountain moving to the north and half to the south.
Zechariah 14:5You will flee by My mountain valley, for it will extend to Azal. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with Him.
Psalms 90:2Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.
Psalms 103:17But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the LORD extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children’s children—
Isaiah 51:6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth below; for the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and its people will die like gnats. But My salvation will last forever, and My righteousness will never fail.
Isaiah 51:8For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, My salvation through all generations.”
Micah 5:8Then the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which tramples and tears as it passes through, with no one to rescue them.
Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
Luke 1:50His mercy extends to those who fear Him, from generation to generation.
Hebrews 13:8Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.