Habakkuk 3 · Verse 12

Habakkuk 3:12

Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
Habakkuk 3:12, King James Version

Habakkuk 3:12 in other translations

BSBYou marched across the earth with fury; You threshed the nations in wrath.
WEBYou marched through the land in wrath. You threshed the nations in anger.
ASVThou didst march through the land in indignation; Thou didst thresh the nations in anger.
YLTIn indignation Thou dost tread earth, In anger Thou dost thresh nations.
DARBYThou didst march through the land in indignation, Thou didst thresh the nations in anger.
BBEYou went stepping through the land in wrath, crushing the nations in your passion.
WebsterThou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.

What does Habakkuk 3:12 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
12. march--implying Jehovah's majestic and irresistible progress before His people (Jud 5:4; Psa 68:7). Israel would not have dared to attack the nations, unless Jehovah had gone before. thresh--(Mi 4:13).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Habakkuk 3:3-15

God's people, when in distress, and ready to despair, seek help by considering the days of old, and the years of ancient times, and by pleading them with God in prayer. The resemblance between the Babylonish and Egyptian captivities, naturally presents itself to the mind, as well as the possibility of a like deliverance through the power of Jehovah. God appeared in his glory. All the powers of nature are shaken, and…

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Habakkuk 3:12 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

בְּזַ֖עַםbe.Za.'amin indignationH2195
תִּצְעַד\־titz.'ad-you marchH6805
אָ֑רֶץ'A.retz[the] earthH776
בְּאַ֖ףbe.'Afin angerH639
תָּד֥וּשׁta.Dushyou trample downH1758
גּוֹיִֽם\׃go.YimnationsH1471

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Habakkuk 3:12

  • Jeremiah 51:33

    For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.

  • Micah 4:12-13

    But they know not the thoughts of the Lord, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor. Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the Lord, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.

  • Isaiah 41:15

    Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.

  • Nehemiah 9:22-24

    Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan. Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it. So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would.

  • Psalms 44:1-3

    To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil. We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old. How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out. For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.

  • Joshua 6:1-12

    Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in. And the Lord said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour. And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days. And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets. …

  • Numbers 21:23-35

    And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel. And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong. And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof. For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon. …

  • Psalms 78:55

    He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

  • Amos 1:3

    Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:

  • Acts 13:19

    And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
didst march.
Nu 21:23-35; Jos 6:1-12:24; Ne 9:22-24; Ps 44:1-3; 78:55; Ac 13:19
thresh.
Jer 51:33; Am 1:3; Mic 4:12,13

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Context

  • Habakkuk 3:11

    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.

  • Habakkuk 3:12

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

  • Habakkuk 3:13

    Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.

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Habakkuk 3:12 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Con ira hollaste la tierra, con furor trillaste las gentes.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Tu parcourus le pays avec indignation, tu foulas les nations avec colère.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Im Grimme duchschreitest du die Erde, im Zorne stampfest du die Nationen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
In fremitu conculcabis terram; in furore obstupefacies gentes.