Habakkuk 3:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He was shining like the light; he had rays coming out from his hand: there his power was kept secret.

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  • Job 26:14 : 14 See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.
  • Ps 104:2 : 2 You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:
  • Prov 18:10 : 10 The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the upright man running into it is safe.
  • Isa 60:19-20 : 19 The sun will not be your light by day, and the moon will no longer be bright for you by night: but the Lord will be to you an eternal light, and your God your glory. 20 Your sun will never again go down, or your moon keep back her light: for the Lord will be your eternal light, and the days of your sorrow will be ended.
  • Matt 17:2 : 2 And he was changed in form before them; and his face was shining like the sun, and his clothing became white as light.
  • 1 Tim 6:16 : 16 Who only has life for ever, living in light to which no man may come near; whom no man has seen or is able to see: to whom be honour and power for ever. So be it.
  • Exod 13:21 : 21 And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, guiding them on their way; and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light: so that they were able to go on day and night:
  • Exod 14:20 : 20 And it came between the army of Egypt and the army of Israel; and there was a dark cloud between them, and they went on through the night; but the one army came no nearer to the other all the night.
  • Neh 9:12 : 12 And you went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light on the way they were to go.
  • Rev 22:5 : 5 And there will be no more night; and they have no need of a light or of the shining of the sun; for the Lord God will give them light: and they will be ruling for ever and ever.
  • Rev 21:23 : 23 And the town has no need of the sun, or of the moon, to give it light: for the glory of God did make it light, and the light of it is the Lamb.

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  • 3 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. The heavens were covered with his glory, and the earth was full of his praise.

  • 5 Before him went disease, and flames went out at his feet.

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    9 There went up a smoke from his nose, and a fire of destruction from his mouth: coals were lighted by it.

    10 The heavens were bent, so that he might come down; and it was dark under his feet.

    11 And he went through the air, seated on a storm-cloud: going quickly on the wings of the wind.

    12 And he made the dark his tent round him, a mass of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

    13 Before his shining light his dark clouds went past, raining ice and coals of fire.

    14 The Lord made thunder in the heavens, and the voice of the Highest was sounding out.

  • Ps 18:11-12
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    11 He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

    12 Before his shining light his dark clouds went past, raining ice and fire.

  • 2 He said, The Lord came from Sinai, dawning on them from Seir; shining out from Mount Paran, coming from Meribath Kadesh: from his right hand went flames of fire: his wrath made waste the peoples.

  • Ps 97:2-4
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    2 Dark clouds are round him; his kingdom is based on righteousness and right judging.

    3 Fire goes before him, burning up all those who are against him round about.

    4 His bright flames give light to the world; the earth saw it with fear.

  • 3 Is it possible for his armies to be numbered? and on whom is not his light shining?

  • Ps 18:8-9
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    8 There went up a smoke from his nose, and a fire of destruction from his mouth: flames were lighted by it.

    9 The heavens were bent, so that he might come down; and it was dark under his feet.

  • 2 From Zion, most beautiful of places, God has sent out his light.

  • 32 He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark.

  • Job 41:18-19
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    18 Iron is to him as dry grass, and brass as soft wood.

    19 The arrow is not able to put him to flight: stones are no more to him than dry stems.

  • 6 And his body was like the beryl, and his face had the look of a thunder-flame, and his eyes were like burning lights, and his arms and feet like the colour of polished brass, and the sound of his voice was like the sound of an army.

  • 22 A bright light comes out of the north; God's glory is greatly to be feared.

  • 3 When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.

  • Hab 3:10-11
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    10 The mountains saw you and were moved with fear; the clouds were streaming with water: the voice of the deep was sounding; the sun did not come up, and the moon kept still in her place.

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

  • 4 It is as the light of the morning, when the sun comes up, a morning without clouds; making young grass come to life from the earth.

  • 13 Yours is an arm of power; strong is your hand and high your right hand.

  • 27 And I saw it coloured like electrum, with the look of fire in it and round it, going up from what seemed to be the middle of his body; and going down from what seemed to be the middle of his body I saw what was like fire, and there was a bright light shining round him.

  • 4 You are shining and full of glory, more than the eternal mountains.

  • 6 His going out is from the end of the heaven, and his circle to the ends of it; there is nothing which is not open to his heat.

  • 34 Make clear that strength is God's: he is lifted up over Israel, and his power is in the clouds.

  • 17 He is a young ox, glory is his; his horns are the horns of the mountain ox, with which all peoples will be wounded, even to the ends of the earth: they are the ten thousands of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh.

  • 16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword: and his face was like the sun shining in its strength.

  • 2 You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:

  • 2 And there was the glory of the God of Israel coming from the way of the east: and his voice was like the sound of great waters, and the earth was shining with his glory.

  • 14 See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.

  • 3 In his burning wrath every horn of Israel has been cut off; his right hand has been turned back before the attacker: he has put a fire in Jacob, causing destruction round about.

  • 17 For you are the glory of their strength; in your pleasure will our horn be lifted up.

  • 30 And the Lord will send out the sound of his great voice, and they will see his arm stretched out, with the heat of his wrath, and the flame of a burning fire; with a cloud-burst, and storm, and a rain of ice.

  • 12 His breath puts fire to coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

  • 17 Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.

  • 3 His form was shining like the light, and his clothing was white as snow:

  • 9 By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.

  • 5 The mountains are shaking because of him, and the hills flowing away; the earth is falling to bits before him, the world and all who are in it.

  • 3 He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth.

  • 6 The heavens gave out the news of his righteousness, and all the people saw his glory.

  • 3 Who, being the outshining of his glory, the true image of his substance, supporting all things by the word of his power, having given himself as an offering making clean from sins, took his seat at the right hand of God in heaven;

  • 3 Your people give themselves gladly in the day of your power; like the dew of the morning on the holy mountains is the army of your young men.

  • 19 Will anyone take him when he is on the watch, or put metal teeth through his nose?