1   A prayer of Habakkuk the Prophet for the ^note ignorances.

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

3   God commeth from ^note Teman, & the holy one from mount Paran, Selah. His glory couereth the heauens, & the earth is full of his prayse,

4   And his brightnes was as the light: ^note he had hornes comming out of his hands, and there was the hiding of his power.

5   Before him went the pestilence, and burning coales went forth before his feete.

6   He stoode and measured the earth: he behelde and dissolued the nations and the euerlasting mountaines were broken, and the ancient hilles did bowe: his ^note wayes are euerlasting.

7    ^noteFor his iniquitie I sawe the tentes of Cushan, and the curtaines of the land of Midian did tremble.

8   Was the Lorde angry against the ^note riuers? or was thine anger against the floods? or was thy wrath against the sea, that thou diddest ride ^note vpon thine horses? thy charets brought saluation.

9   Thy ^note bowe was manifestly reueiled, and the ^note othes of the tribes were a sure worde, Selah. thou ^note diddest cleaue the earth with riuers.

10   The mountaines sawe thee, & they trembled: the streame of the water ^note passed by: the deepe made a noyse, and lift vp his hand on hie.

11   The ^note sunne and moone stood still in their habitation: ^note at the light of thine arrowes they went, and at the bright shining of thy speares.

12   Thou trodest downe the land in anger,

Threatnings against Iudah. and didest thresh the heathen in displeasure.

13   Thou wentest foorth for the saluation of thy people, euen for saluation with thine ^note Anointed: thou hast wounded the head of the house of the wicked, and discoueredst the foundations vnto the ^note necke, Selah.

14   Thou didest ^note strike thorowe with his owne staues the heades of his villages: they came out as a whirle winde to scatter me: their reioycing was as to deuoure the poore secretly.

15   Thou didest walke in the sea with thine horses vpon the heape of great waters.

16   When I ^note heard, my bellie trembled: my lippes shooke at the voyce: rottennesse entred into my bones, and I trembled in my selfe, that I might rest in ^note the day of trouble: for wh&ebar; he commeth vp ^note vnto the people, he shall destroy them.

17   For the figtree shall not flourish, neither shall fruite be in the vines: the labour of the oliue shall faile, and the fieldes shall yeelde no meate: the sheepe shalbe cut off from the folde, and there shalbe no bullocke in the stalles.

18   But I will reioyce in the Lorde: I will ioy ^note in the God of my saluation.

19   The Lorde God is my strength: hee will make my feete like hindes feete, and he will make me to walke vpon mine hie places. ^noteTo the chiefe singer on Neginothai.

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