Habakkuk 3:1 Cross References - Leeser

¹ A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigyonoth.

¹ A Shiggayon of David, which he sang unto the Lord, concerning the affairs of Cush the Benjamite. ^(7:2) O Lord my God, in thee do I put my trust; save me from every one of my persecutors, and deliver me: ^{2 (7:3)} Lest he tear like a lion my soul, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver. ^{3 (7:4)} O Lord my God, if I have done this; if there be injustice in my hands; ^{4 (7:5)} If I have recompensed him that was at peace with me with evil; If I have taken aught from my assailants without cause: ^{5 (7:6)} May the enemy hotly pursue my soul, and overtake it; and tread down upon the earth my life, and cause my honor to be in the dust. Selah. ^{6 (7:7)} Arise, O Lord, in thy anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of my enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded. ^{7 (7:8)} So shall the congregation of nations compass thee about: and for their sakes return thou to the height. ^{8 (7:9)} The Lord will judge the people: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to my integrity grant me recompense. ^{9 (7:10)} Oh let the evil of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just, O thou, who triest the hearts and reins, O righteous God. ^{10 (7:11)} My protection is by God, who saveth the upright in heath. ^{11 (7:12)} God is a righteous judge, and a God who is indignant with the wicked every day. ^{12 (7:13)} If he turn not, He will whet his sword, he bendeth his bow, and maketh it ready. ^{13 (7:14)} Also for him he prepareth the instruments of death; he fashioneth his arrows against the persecutors. ^{14 (7:15)} Behold, he travaileth with wrong doing; but he hath conceived mischief, and bringeth forth falsehood. ^{15 (7:16)} He hath hollowed out a pit, and dug it, and is fallen into the ditch which he hath wrought. ^{16 (7:17)} His mischief will return upon his own head, and upon his own skull will his violence come down. ^{17 (7:18)} I will thank the Lord according to his righteousness; and I will sing praises to the name of the Lord the Most High.

¹ A prayer of David. Incline, O Lord, thy ear, answer me; for poor and needy am I. ² Preserve my soul; for I am pious: help thy servant, O thou my God, that trusteth in thee. ³ Be gracious unto me, O Lord; for unto thee I call all the time. ⁴ Cause to rejoice the soul of thy servant; for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift my soul. ⁵ For thou, O Lord, art good and forgiving, and abundant in kindness unto all that call on thee. ⁶ Give ear, O Lord, unto my prayer, and attend to the voice of my supplications. ⁷ On the day of my distress will I call on thee; for thou wilt answer me. ⁸ There is none like unto thee among the Gods, O Lord; and there is nothing like thy works. ⁹ All the nations whom thou hast made shall come and bow themselves down before thee, O Lord; and they shall ascribe honor unto thy name. ¹⁰ For great art thou, and doing wondrous things: thou art God by thyself alone. ¹¹ Teach me, O Lord, thy way; I will walk firmly in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name. ¹² I will thank thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart, and I will honor thy name for evermore. ¹³ For thy kindness is great toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the grave of the lower world. ¹⁴ O God, the presumptuous are risen up against me, and the assembly of the powerful wicked have sought after my life, and have not set thee before them. ¹⁵ But thou, O Lord, art God, full of mercy, and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in kindness and truth. ¹⁶ Oh turn unto me, and be gracious unto me: give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thy handmaid. ¹⁷ Display on me a sign for good, that those who hate me may see it, and be ashamed; because thou, Lord, hast helped me, and comforted me.

¹ BOOK FOURTH: A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, a place of refuge hast thou been unto us in all generations. ² Before yet the mountains were brought forth, or thou hadst ever produced the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. ³ Thou turnest man to contrition, and sayest, Return ye children of men. ⁴ For a thousand years are in thy eyes but as the yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. ⁵ Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they grow like the grass which changeth. ⁶ In the morning it blossometh, and is changed: in the evening it is mowed off, and withereth. ⁷ For thus are we consumed by thy anger, and by thy fury are we terrified. ⁸ Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our concealed sins before the light of thy countenance. ⁹ For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we consume our years like a word that is spoken. ¹⁰ The days of our years in this life are seventy years; and if by uncommon vigor they be eighty, yet is their greatness trouble and mishap; for it soon hasteneth off, and we fly away. ¹¹ Who knoweth the strength of thy anger, and thy wrath which is like the fear of thee? ¹² Let us then know how to number our days, that we may obtain a heart endowed with wisdom. ¹³ Return, O Lord, how long yet? and bethink thee concerning thy servants. ¹⁴ O satisfy us in the morning with thy kindness, that we may be glad and rejoice throughout all our days. ¹⁵ Cause us to rejoice as many days as those wherein thou hast afflicted us, the years wherein we have seen unhappiness. ¹⁶ Let thy act be visible on thy servants, and thy majesty over their children. ¹⁷ And may the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us; and the work of our hands do thou firmly establish upon us: yea, the work of our hands—firmly establish thou it.