Habakkuk 3:12

King James Version

Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You march across the earth with indignation;you trample down the nations in wrath.

Hebrew Names Version
You marched through the land in wrath. You threshed the nations in anger.

King James Version (1611)
Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.

English Standard Version
You marched through the earth in fury; you threshed the nations in anger.

New American Standard Bible
In indignation You marched through the earth; In anger You trampled the nations.

New Century Version
In anger you marched on the earth; in anger you punished the nations.

Amplified Bible
In indignation You marched through the earth; In anger You trampled and threshed the nations.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou trodest downe the land in anger, and didest thresh the heathen in displeasure.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
In indignation You marched through the earth; In anger You trampled the nations.

Legacy Standard Bible
In indignation You marched through the earth;In anger You trampled the nations.

Berean Standard Bible
You marched across the earth with fury; You threshed the nations in wrath.

Contemporary English Version
In your furious anger, you trampled on nations

Complete Jewish Bible
In fury you stride across the land, in anger you trample the nations.

Darby Translation
Thou didst march through the land in indignation, Thou didst thresh the nations in anger.

Easy-to-Read Version
In anger you walked on the earth and punished the nations.

George Lamsa Translation
Thou didst tread upon the earth in thy indignation, thou didst thresh the nations in thine anger.

Good News Translation
You marched across the earth in anger; in fury you trampled the nations.

Lexham English Bible
In fury you marched through the earth; in anger you trampled the nations.

Literal Translation
You go into the land in fury. You thresh nations in anger.

American Standard Version
Thou didst march through the land in indignation; Thou didst thresh the nations in anger.

Bible in Basic English
You went stepping through the land in wrath, crushing the nations in your passion.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou marchest through the earth in indignation, Thou threshest the nations in anger.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou trodest downe the land in anger: [and] dyddest threshe the heathen in displeasure.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou wilt bring low the land with threatening, and in wrath thou wilt break down the nations.

English Revised Version
Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the nations in anger.

World English Bible
You marched through the land in wrath. You threshed the nations in anger.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
In gnastyng thou schalt defoule erthe, and in strong veniaunce thou schalt astonye folkis.

Update Bible Version
You marched though the land in indignation; You threshed the nations in anger.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.

New English Translation
You furiously stomp on the earth, you angrily trample down the nations.

New King James Version
You marched through the land in indignation; You trampled the nations in anger.

New Living Translation
You marched across the land in anger and trampled the nations in your fury.

New Life Bible
You walked over the earth in Your anger. In anger You crushed the nations under foot.

New Revised Standard
In fury you trod the earth, in anger you trampled nations.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
In wrath, dost thou stride through the land, - in anger, dost thou thresh the nations.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In thy anger thou wilt tread the earth under foot: in thy wrath thou wilt astonish the nations.

Revised Standard Version
Thou didst bestride the earth in fury, thou didst trample the nations in anger.

Young's Literal Translation
In indignation Thou dost tread earth, In anger Thou dost thresh nations.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou trodest downe the londe in thine anger, and didest throsshe the Heithen in thy displeasure.

Contextual Overview

³ God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. ⁴ And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power. ⁵ Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. ⁶ 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. ⁷ I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble. ⁸ Was the Lord displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation? ⁹ Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers. ¹⁰ The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high. ¹¹ The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear. ¹² Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

didst march: Numbers 21:23-35, Joshua 6:1 - Joshua 12:24, Nehemiah 9:22-24, Psalms 44:1-3, Psalms 78:55, Acts 13:19

thresh: Jeremiah 51:33, Amos 1:3, Micah 4:12, Micah 4:13

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 9:20 - driving Psalms 68:7 - thou didst Psalms 74:12 - working Psalms 94:10 - he correct Isaiah 21:10 - my threshing Isaiah 30:28 - an overflowing Isaiah 41:15 - I will make

Cross-References

Genesis 2:18
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

Genesis 2:20
And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

Genesis 2:22
And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

Genesis 3:13
And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Genesis 3:20
And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

Genesis 3:21
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

Genesis 3:24
So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

Job 31:33
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:

Proverbs 19:3
The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the Lord .

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou didst march through the land with indignation,.... Not the land of Canaan, fighting against the inhabitants of it, dispossessing them to make room for the Israelites, whatever allusion may be to it; but the antichristian land, the whole Romish jurisdiction, and all the states of it, through which the Lord will march in wrath and fury, when he pours out the vials of it upon them; or this is desired, and prayed for; for it may be rendered, "do thou march through the land" r, c. foreseeing and believing that he would:

thou didst thresh the heathen in anger; or, "do thou thresh" s, c. these are the Papists, called heathens and Gentiles in Scripture, because of the heathenish customs and practices they have introduced into the Christian religion, Psalms 10:16 these are the nations that will be gathered together like sheaves of grain on a floor to be threshed; and when Zion the church of Christ, and Christian princes, will be called upon to arise, and thresh them; and the Lord by them will do it, namely, separate his own people from them, which are like wheat, and utterly destroy them, as chaff and stubble, Micah 4:12.

r תצעד "progredlaris", Van Till. s תדוש "tritures", Van Till.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou didst march the earth in indignation - The word “tread” is used of very solemn manifestations of God, (Judges 5:4; Psalms 68:8; of the procession of the ark, 2 Samuel 6:13. It is denied as to the idols, Jeremiah 10:5.) of His going to give to His own victory over their enemies Not the land only, as of old, but the earth is the scene of His judgments; the earth which was “full of His praise,” which He “meted out” Habakkuk 3:3, Habakkuk 3:6 which contained the nations whom He chastened, the whole earth.

Thou dost thresh the heathen in anger - Not then only, but at all times unto the end, distress of nations and perplexity are among the shoots of the fig tree, which betoken that the everlasting, Luke 21:25-31, “summer is nigh at hand.” Jerusalem, when it had slain the Prince of Life, was given over to desolation and counted like the pagan. It became the synagogue, not the Church; and so in the destruction of Jerusalem (as it is an image of the destruction of the world) was that again fulfilled, “Thou dost march through the earth in indignation, Thou dost thresh the heathen in anger.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Habakkuk 3:12. Thou didst march through the land — This refers to the conquest of Canaan. God is represented as going at the head of his people as general-in-chief; and leading them on from conquest to conquest-which was the fact.

Thou didst thresh the heathen in anger. — Thou didst tread them down, as the oxen do the sheaves on the threshing-floor.