Habakkuk 3:6

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“He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.”

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“He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“He 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.”

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YLTPD

“He hath stood, and He measureth earth, He hath seen, and He shaketh off nations, And scatter themselves do mountains of antiquity, Bowed have the hills of old, The ways of old <FI>are<Fi> His.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Habakkuk 3:6 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 49:26The blessings of your father have surpassed the blessings of the ancient mountains and the bounty of the everlasting hills. May they rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince of his brothers.
  2. Exodus 15:14The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will grip the dwellers of Philistia.
  3. Exodus 15:15Then the chiefs of Edom will be dismayed; trembling will seize the leaders of Moab; those who dwell in Canaan will melt away,
  4. Exodus 15:17You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of Your inheritance— the place, O LORD, You have prepared for Your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, Your hands have established.
  5. Exodus 19:18Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.
  6. Exodus 21:31If the ox gores a son or a daughter, it shall be done to him according to the same rule.
  7. Numbers 34:1Then the LORD said to Moses,
  8. Deuteronomy 32:8When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
  9. Deuteronomy 33:15with the best of the ancient mountains and the bounty of the everlasting hills,
  10. Joshua 10:42And because the LORD, the God of Israel, fought for Israel, Joshua captured all these kings and their land in one campaign.
  11. Joshua 11:18Joshua waged war against all these kings for a long period of time.
  12. Judges 5:5The mountains quaked before the LORD, the One of Sinai, before the LORD, the God of Israel.
  13. Nehemiah 9:22You gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner of the land. So they took the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and of Og king of Bashan.
  14. Job 9:5He moves mountains without their knowledge and overturns them in His anger.
  15. Psalms 68:16Why do you gaze in envy, O mountains of many peaks? This is the mountain God chose for His dwelling, where the LORD will surely dwell forever.
  16. Psalms 90:2Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.
  17. Psalms 97:5The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth.
  18. Psalms 103:17But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the LORD extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children’s children—
  19. Psalms 104:32He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smolder.
  20. Psalms 114:4the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
  21. Psalms 135:8He struck down the firstborn of Egypt, of both man and beast.
  22. Isaiah 51:6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth below; for the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and its people will die like gnats. But My salvation will last forever, and My righteousness will never fail.
  23. Isaiah 51:8For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, My salvation through all generations.”
  24. Isaiah 64:1If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,

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