Habakkuk 3:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

At the light of your arrows they went away, at the shining of your polished spear.

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  • Ps 18:12-14 : 12 Before his shining light his dark clouds went past, raining ice and fire. 13 The Lord made thunder in the heavens, and the voice of the Highest was sounding out: a rain of ice and fire. 14 He sent out his arrows, driving them in all directions; by his flames of fire they were troubled.
  • Ps 144:5-6 : 5 Come down, O Lord, from your heavens: at your touch let the mountains give out smoke. 6 With your storm-flames send them in flight: send out your arrows for their destruction.
  • Isa 28:21 : 21 For the Lord will come up as on Mount Perazim, he will be moved to wrath as in the valley of Gibeon; so that he may do his work--strange is his work; and give effect to his act--unnatural is his act.
  • Isa 38:8 : 8 See, I will make the shade which has gone down on the steps of Ahaz with the sun, go back ten steps. So the shade went back the ten steps by which it had gone down.
  • Ps 19:4 : 4 Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he put a tent for the sun,
  • Ps 77:17-18 : 17 The clouds sent out water; the skies gave out a sound; truly, your arrows went far and wide. 18 The voice of your thunder went rolling on; the world was flaming with the light of the storm; the earth was shaking.
  • Josh 10:11-13 : 11 And in their flight before Israel, on the way down from Beth-horon, the Lord sent down great stones from heaven on them all the way to Azekah, causing their death: those whose death was caused by the stones were more than those whom the children of Israel put to death with the sword. 12 It was on the day when the Lord gave up the Amorites into the hands of the children of Israel that Joshua said to the Lord, before the eyes of Israel, Sun, be at rest over Gibeon; and you, O moon, in the valley of Aijalon. 13 And the sun was at rest and the moon kept its place till the nation had given punishment to their attackers. (Is it not recorded in the book of Jashar?) So the sun kept its place in the middle of the heavens, and was waiting, and did not go down, for the space of a day.

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    18 The voice of your thunder went rolling on; the world was flaming with the light of the storm; the earth was shaking.

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    5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's haters; because of them the peoples are falling under you.

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    6 With your storm-flames send them in flight: send out your arrows for their destruction.

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