Habakkuk 3:9

American Standard Version (1901)

Thy bow was made quite bare; The oaths to the tribes were a [sure] word. {{Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.

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  • Ps 7:12-13 : 12 If a man turn not, he will whet his sword; He hath bent his bow, and made it ready. 13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; He maketh his arrows fiery [shafts] .
  • Ps 78:15-16 : 15 He clave rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths. 16 He brought streams also out of the rock, And caused waters to run down like rivers.
  • Ps 105:41 : 41 He opened the rock, and waters gushed out; They ran in the dry places [like] a river.
  • Ps 143:6 : 6 I spread forth my hands unto thee: My soul [thirsteth] after thee, as a weary land. {{Selah
  • Isa 51:9-9 : 9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah; awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Is it not thou that didst cut Rahab in pieces, that didst pierce the monster? 10 Is it not thou that driedst up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that madest the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
  • Isa 52:10 : 10 Jehovah hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
  • Lam 2:4 : 4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy, he hath stood with his right hand as an adversary, And hath slain all that were pleasant to the eye: In the tent of the daughter of Zion he hath poured out his wrath like fire.
  • Luke 1:72-75 : 72 To show mercy towards, our fathers, And to remember his holy covenant; 73 The oath which he spake unto Abraham our father, 74 To grant unto us that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies Should serve him without fear, 75 In holiness and righteousness before him all our days.
  • 1 Cor 10:4 : 4 and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ.
  • Heb 6:13-18 : 13 For when God made promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he sware by himself, 14 saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. 15 And thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 16 For men swear by the greater: and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation. 17 Wherein God, being minded to show more abundantly unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath; 18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us:
  • Gen 15:18-21 : 18 In that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: 19 the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite, 20 and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim, 21 and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.
  • Gen 17:7-8 : 7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee. 8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
  • Gen 22:16-18 : 16 and said, By myself have I sworn, saith Jehovah, because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, 17 that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; 18 and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
  • Gen 26:3-4 : 3 sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; 4 and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these lands; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
  • Gen 28:13-14 : 13 And, behold, Jehovah stood above it, and said, I am Jehovah, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; 14 and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
  • Exod 17:6 : 6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
  • Num 20:11 : 11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and smote the rock with his rod twice: and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their cattle.
  • Deut 32:23 : 23 I will heap evils upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them:
  • Ps 105:8-9 : 8 He hath remembered his covenant for ever, The word which he commanded to a thousand generations, 9 [ The covenant] which he made with Abraham, And his oath unto Isaac, 10 And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant, 11 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance;
  • Ps 35:1-3 : 1 [[ A Psalm] of David]. Strive thou, O Jehovah, with them that strive with me: Fight thou against them that fight against me. 2 Take hold of shield and buckler, And stand up for my help. 3 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that pursue me: Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Hab 3:10-15
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    10The mountains saw thee, and were afraid; The tempest of waters passed by; The deep uttered its voice, And lifted up its hands on high.

    11The sun and moon stood still in their habitation, At the light of thine arrows as they went, At the shining of thy glittering spear.

    12Thou didst march though the land in indignation; Thou didst thresh the nations in anger.

    13Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, For the salvation of thine anointed; Thou woundest the head out of the house of the wicked man, Laying bare the foundation even unto the neck. {{Selah.

    14Thou didst pierce with his own staves the head of his warriors: They came as a whirlwind to scatter me; Their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.

    15Thou didst tread the sea with thy horses, The heap of mighty waters.

  • Hab 3:6-8
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    6He stood, and measured the earth; He beheld, and drove asunder the nations; And the eternal mountains were scattered; The everlasting hills did bow; His goings were [as] of old.

    7I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction; The curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.

    8Was Jehovah displeased with the rivers? Was thine anger against the rivers, Or thy wrath against the sea, That thou didst ride upon thy horses, Upon thy chariots of salvation?

  • 15Thou didst cleave fountain and flood: Thou driedst up mighty rivers.

  • Ps 77:15-18
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    15Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, The sons of Jacob and Joseph. {{Selah

    16The waters saw thee, O God; The waters saw thee, they were afraid: The depths also trembled.

    17The clouds poured out water; The skies sent out a sound: Thine arrows also went abroad.

    18The voice of thy thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lightened the world: The earth trembled and shook.

  • Ps 76:3-4
    2 verses
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    3There he brake the arrows of the bow; The shield, and the sword, and the battle. {{Selah

    4Glorious art thou [and] excellent, From the mountains of prey.

  • 4Jehovah, when thou wentest forth out of Seir, When thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, The earth trembled, the heavens also dropped, Yea, the clouds dropped water.

  • 5Thine arrows are sharp; The peoples fall under thee; [They are] in the heart of the king's enemies.

  • 15Then the channels of waters appeared, And the foundations of the world were laid bare, At thy rebuke, O Jehovah, At the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

  • 10Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; Thou hast scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength.

  • 3Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O mighty one, Thy glory and thy majesty.

  • 9Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, Thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.

  • 12Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, The earth swallowed them.

  • 13Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: Thou brakest the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.

  • Exod 15:6-7
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    6Thy right hand, O Jehovah, is glorious in power, Thy right hand, O Jehovah, dasheth in pieces the enemy.

    7And in the greatness of thine excellency thou overthrowest them that rise up against thee: Thou sendest forth thy wrath, it consumeth them as stubble.

  • 6Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.

  • 3Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, Though the mountains tremble with the swelling thereof. {{Selah

  • 35He teacheth my hands to war, So that mine arms do bend a bow of brass.

  • Lam 3:12-13
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    69%

    12He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

    13He hath caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.

  • 3Thy people offer themselves willingly In the day of thy power, in holy array: Out of the womb of the morning Thou hast the dew of thy youth.

  • 11And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their pursuers thou didst cast into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.

  • 10Is it not thou that driedst up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that madest the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?

  • 15Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where are thy zeal and thy mighty acts? the yearning of thy heart and thy compassions are restrained toward me.

  • 13Thou hast a mighty arm; Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.

  • 5What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleest? Thou Jordan, that thou turnest back?

  • 3The sea saw it, and fled; The Jordan was driven back.

  • 6Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a vesture; The waters stood above the mountains.

  • 49Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, Which thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness?

  • 4He hath bent his bow like an enemy, he hath stood with his right hand as an adversary, And hath slain all that were pleasant to the eye: In the tent of the daughter of Zion he hath poured out his wrath like fire.

  • 7Let them melt away as water that runneth apace: When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.

  • 9He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; He burneth the chariots in the fire.

  • 3With an instrument of ten strings, and with the psaltery; With a solemn sound upon the harp.

  • 12For thou wilt make them turn their back; Thou wilt make ready with thy bowstrings against their face.

  • 25I have digged and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.

  • 34He teacheth my hands to war; So that mine arms do bend a bow of brass.