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3 A prayer of the prophet Habakkuk, in dithyrambic measure.
2We have heard thee, O Eternal,
we have seen thee in action.
Strike now, for the years are passing,
reveal thyself now as the years 4 go by,
amid thy wrath remember to be merciful.
3God comes from Teman,
the Majestic One from Paran hills,
his splendour over all the sky,
his glory filling all the earth;
4his radiance is a lightning blaze,
on either side flash rays . . . . . . . .
and there he veils his might.
5Before him Pestilence strides,
behind him the burning Plague.
6At his step the earth is shaken,
at his look nations are scattered,
the ancient hills are shattered,
mountains of old sink low,
where he marched long ago,
7scaring the tents of Kushan,
shaking the curtained tents of Midian.
15Over the sea thou stridest with thy steeds;
the mighty waters surge.
8Art angry with the hills, O thou Eternal?
Art wrathful at the sea,
that thou art storming on thy steeds,
upon thy chariots in triumph?
9Thy bow [[the clans bound by an oath]] thou barest,
and the land is tom with streams,
10the hills writhe at thy sight,
floods pour down from the skies,
the torrents roar,
11the sun forgets to rise,
the moon to move,
before the flashes of thy darting arrows,
before the sheen of the lightning, thy lance.
12Thou tramplest earth in fury,
threshing the peoples in thine anger,
13thou art abroad to rescue thine own nation,
to save thy chosen.
Thou hast unroofed the enemy’s house,
hast laid it bare to the foundations;
14thy spears have pierced the warrior chiefs
who stormed out to scatter us--
their joy was to murder us [[poor folk in hiding]].
16The sound of this sets our heart shaking,
we listen with lips a-quiver,
our very bones are breaking,
and as we stand we shiver;
yet calmly we await the day of doom
that dawns upon the folk who would assail us.
17[[Though the fig-tree may not blossom,
though no fruit is on the vine,
though the olive crop has failed,
though the fields give us no food,
though the folds have lost their flocks,
and in the stalls no cattle lie,
18yet in the Eternal we will find our joy,
we will rejoice in the God who saves us.
19The Lord, the Eternal, is our strength,
he makes our feet sure as the feet of hinds,
helps us to keep our footing on the heights.]]
From the Choirmaster’s collection. To a string accompaniment.