Habakkuk 3:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

O LORD, I have heard Your speech, and was afraid; O LORD, revive Your work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְהוָ֗ה שָׁמַ֣עְתִּי שִׁמְעֲךָ֮ יָרֵאתִי֒ יְהוָ֗ה פָּֽעָלְךָ֙ בְּקֶ֤רֶב שָׁנִים֙ חַיֵּ֔יהוּ בְּקֶ֥רֶב שָׁנִ֖ים תּוֹדִ֑יעַ בְּרֹ֖גֶז רַחֵ֥ם תִּזְכּֽוֹר׃

Transliteration

YHWH, šāmaʿtî šimʿăḵā, yārēʾṯî. YHWH, pāʿolḵā in qereḇ šānîm ḥayyēhû, in qereḇ šānîm tôḏîaʿ; in rōḡez raḥēm tizḵôr

Grammar Details

• *YHWH*: divine name
• *šāmaʿtî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I have heard
• *šimʿăḵā*: noun masculine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your report/fame
• *yārēʾṯî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I feared/was afraid
• *pāʿolḵā*: noun masculine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your work/deed
• *qereḇ šānîm*: construct phrase - midst of years
• *ḥayyēhû*: piel imperative with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - revive/preserve it
• *tôḏîaʿ*: hiphil imperfect 2nd person masculine singular - you will make known
• *rōḡez*: noun masculine singular with preposition - in wrath/anger
• *raḥēm*: piel infinitive absolute - to have mercy/compassion
• *tizḵôr*: qal imperfect 2nd person masculine singular - you will remember

Word Meanings

• *qereḇ šānîm*: midst of years/within the years/during our lifetime
• *ḥayyēhû*: revive it/preserve it alive/renew it
• *raḥēm*: have mercy/show compassion

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  LORD, I have heard of Your fame and stand in awe of Your deeds. LORD, revive Your work in the midst of the years; in the midst of the years, make it known; in wrath, remember mercy.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  O Jehovah,{H3068} I have heard{H8085} the report{H8088} of thee, and am afraid:{H3372} O Jehovah,{H3068} revive{H2421} thy work{H6467} in the midst{H7130} of the years;{H8141} In the midst{H7130} of the years{H8141} make it known;{H3045} In wrath{H7267} remember{H2142} mercy.{H7355}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  O LORD{H3068}, I have heard{H8085}{(H8804)} thy speech{H8088}, and was afraid{H3372}{(H8804)}: O LORD{H3068}, revive{H2421}{(H8761)} thy work{H6467} in the midst{H7130} of the years{H8141}, in the midst{H7130} of the years{H8141} make known{H3045}{(H8686)}; in wrath{H7267} remember{H2142}{(H8799)} mercy{H7355}{(H8763)}.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  O Lorde, when I herde speake of ye, I was afrayed. The worke yt thou hast taken in honde, shalt thou perfourme in his tyme, O LORDE: and when thy tyme commeth, thou shalt declare it. In thy very wrath thou thinkest vpon mercy.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  O Lord, I haue heard thy voyce, and was afraide: O Lord, reuiue thy worke in the mids of the people, in the mids of the yeeres make it knowen: in wrath remember mercy.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  O lord I haue heard thy voyce, and was afrayde: O Lorde reuiue thy worke in the middes of the yeres, in the middes of the yeres make it knowen, in wrath remember mercie.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  O LORD, I have heard thy speech, [and] was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Yahweh, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, Yahweh. Renew your work in the midst of the years. In the midst of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  O Jehovah, I heard thy report, I have been afraid, O Jehovah, Thy work! in midst of years revive it, In the midst of years Thou makest known In anger Thou dost remember mercy.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  O Jehovah, I have heard the report of thee, and am afraid: O Jehovah, revive thy work in the midst of the years; In the midst of the years make it known; In wrath remember mercy.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  O Jehovah, I have heard the report of thee, and am afraid: O Jehovah, revive thy work in the midst of the years; In the midst of the years make it known; In wrath remember mercy.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  O Lord, word of you has come to my ears; I have seen your work, O Lord; when the years come near make it clear; in wrath keep mercy in mind.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Yahweh, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, Yahweh. Renew your work in the midst of the years. In the midst of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  LORD, I have heard the report of what you did; I am awed, LORD, by what you accomplished. In our time repeat those deeds; in our time reveal them again. But when you cause turmoil, remember to show us mercy!

Referenced Verses

• Ps 85:6 : 6 Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You?
• Hab 3:16 : 16 When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice; decay entered my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble. When he comes up to the people, he will invade them with his troops.
• Ps 119:120 : 120 My flesh trembles for fear of You, and I am afraid of Your judgments.
• Lam 3:32 : 32 But though He causes grief, yet He will show compassion according to the multitude of His mercies.
• Hos 6:2-3 : 2 After two days he will revive us: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his presence. 3 Then shall we know, if we pursue to know the LORD: his coming is as certain as the morning; and he will come to us like the rain, like the latter and former rain to the earth.
• Hab 1:5-9 : 5 Look among the nations and watch—be utterly astounded! For I will work a work in your days which you would not believe, though it were told you. 6 For indeed I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation which marches through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwellingplaces that are not theirs. 7 They are terrible and dreadful; their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves. 8 Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than evening wolves; their horsemen spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from afar; they fly as the eagle that hastens to eat. 9 They all come for violence; their faces are set like the east wind, and they gather captives like sand. 10 They scoff at kings, and the princes are scorned by them; they deride every stronghold, for they heap up dust and take it.
• Dan 9:2 : 2 In the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the books the number of the years, as spoken by the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
• Rev 15:4 : 4 Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. For all nations shall come and worship before You, for Your judgments have been revealed.
• Ps 90:13-17 : 13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent you concerning your servants. 14 O satisfy us early with your mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. 15 Make us glad according to the days wherein you have afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. 16 Let your work appear to your servants, and your glory to their children. 17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, the work of our hands establish it.
• Zech 1:12 : 12 Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long will You not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which You have had indignation these seventy years?
• John 10:10 : 10 The thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy. I have come that they might have life, and have it more abundantly.
• Rom 10:16 : 16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"
• Phil 1:6 : 6 Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ:
• Ps 138:7-8 : 7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive me; You shall stretch forth Your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and Your right hand shall save me. 8 The LORD will perfect that which concerns me; Your mercy, O LORD, endures forever; do not forsake the works of Your hands.
• Isa 51:9-9 : 9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in ancient days, in the generations of old. Are you not the one who cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon? 10 Are you not the one who dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over? 11 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD will return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy will be upon their heads: they will obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning will flee away.
• Isa 53:1 : 1 Who has believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
• Isa 54:8 : 8 In a little wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on you, says the LORD your Redeemer.
• Isa 63:15-64:4 : 15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where is your zeal and your strength, the yearning of your heart and your mercies toward me? Are they restrained? 16 Doubtless you are our Father, though Abraham is ignorant of us, and Israel does not acknowledge us: you, O LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer; your name is from everlasting. 17 O LORD, why have you made us to stray from your ways, and hardened our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance. 18 The people of your holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary. 19 We are yours: you never ruled over them; they were not called by your name. 1 Oh that you would rend the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might flow down at your presence, 2 As when the melting fire burns, the fire causes the waters to boil, to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence! 3 When you did terrible things which we did not look for, you came down, the mountains flowed down at your presence. 4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen, O God, besides you, what you have prepared for him who waits for you.
• Isa 66:2 : 2 For all those things my hand has made, and all those things have been, says the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is humble and of a contrite spirit, and trembles at my word.
• Jer 10:24 : 24 O LORD, correct me, but with justice; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
• Jer 25:11-12 : 11 And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. 12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, says the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
• Jer 29:10 : 10 For thus says the LORD: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
• Jer 36:21-24 : 21 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the scroll; and he took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes who stood beside the king. 22 Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month, and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him. 23 And it happened, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth. 24 Yet they were not afraid, nor did they tear their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.
• Jer 52:31-34 : 31 And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, that Evil-Merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him out of prison, 32 And spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon, 33 And changed his prison garments: and he regularly ate bread before him all the days of his life. 34 And for his diet, there was a regular portion given to him by the king of Babylon, daily a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.
• Exod 9:20-21 : 20 He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses. 21 And he that did not regard the word of the LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field.
• Exod 32:10-12 : 10 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation." 11 Moses entreated the LORD his God, and said, "LORD, why does Your wrath burn hot against Your people, whom You have brought forth from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 12 Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth'? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and relent from this evil against Your people.
• Num 14:10-23 : 10 But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel. 11 And the LORD said to Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be before they believe me, for all the signs which I have shown among them? 12 I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they. 13 And Moses said to the LORD, Then the Egyptians will hear it, (for you brought up this people in your might from among them;) 14 And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that you LORD are among this people, that you LORD are seen face to face, and that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them, by day in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night. 15 Now if you shall kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying, 16 Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness. 17 And now, I beseech you, let the power of my Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying, 18 The LORD is longsuffering and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation. 19 Pardon, I beseech you, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your mercy, and as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now. 20 And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to your word: 21 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD. 22 Because all those men who have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not listened to my voice; 23 Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
• Num 16:46-47 : 46 And Moses said to Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire in it from the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly to the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague has begun. 47 And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague had begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.
• 2 Sam 24:10-17 : 10 And David's heart struck him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the LORD, I have sinned greatly in what I have done: and now, I beg You, O LORD, take away the iniquity of Your servant; for I have done very foolishly. 11 For when David arose in the morning, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying, 12 Go and say to David, Thus says the LORD, I offer you three things; choose one of them, that I may do it to you. 13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? or will you flee three months before your enemies, while they pursue you? or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? Now consider, and see what answer I shall return to Him who sent me. 14 And David said to Gad, I am in great distress: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are great; and do not let me fall into the hand of man. 15 So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand men died from Dan to Beersheba. 16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD relented of the evil, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, It is enough; now stay your hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. 17 And David spoke to the LORD when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, Behold, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let Your hand, I pray You, be against me, and against my father's house.
• 2 Chr 34:27-28 : 27 Because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place and against the inhabitants of it, and humbled yourself before me, and tore your clothes, and wept before me; I have even heard you also, says the LORD. 28 Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.
• Ezra 9:8 : 8 And now for a little while grace has been shown from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a peg in His holy place, that our God may enlighten our eyes and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
• Job 4:12-21 : 12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a little of it. 13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, 14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake. 15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: 16 It stood still, but I could not discern its form: an image was before my eyes; there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, 17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker? 18 Behold, he puts no trust in his servants; and his angels he charges with folly: 19 How much less in those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth? 20 They are destroyed from morning to evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it. 21 Does not their excellence which is in them vanish away? They die, even without wisdom.
• Ps 6:1-2 : 1 O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger, nor chasten me in Your hot displeasure. 2 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are troubled.
• Ps 38:1 : 1 O LORD, do not rebuke me in your wrath, nor chasten me in your hot displeasure.
• Ps 44:1 : 1 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work You did in their days, in the times of old.
• Ps 78:38 : 38 But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy them: yes, many a time he turned away his anger, and did not stir up all his wrath.
• Heb 11:7 : 7 By faith Noah, being warned by God of things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household; by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
• Heb 12:21 : 21 And so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, "I am exceedingly afraid and trembling."
• Dan 8:17 : 17 So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face; but he said to me, Understand, O son of man: for the vision shall be at the time of the end.