InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
Hab 3 V1 V2 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19
People tagged in the matching LV passage: God
Places tagged in the matching LV passage: Teman (JER 49:7)
OET-LV god[fn] from_Tēymān he_comes and_the_holy_one from_hill of_Pāʼrān Şelāh splendour_of_his it_has_covered the_heavens and_praise_of_his the_earth/land it_has_filled.
3:3 OSHB note: We agree with both BHS 1997 and BHQ on an unexpected reading.
OET (OET-RV) God came in from Teyman in Edom,
⇔ and the sinless one from Mt. Paran. (Instrumental break.)
⇔ His splendour blanketed the skies,
⇔ ≈ and the earth was full of his praise.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism
אֱל֨וֹהַ֙ מִתֵּימָ֣ן יָב֔וֹא וְקָד֥וֹשׁ מֵֽהַר־פָּארָ֖ן
god (Some words not found in UHB: god from,Teman came and_[the],holy_[one] from=hill Pāʼrān selah covers heavens splendor_of,his and,praise_of,his she/it_is_full the=earth/land )
See how your translation team has decided to represent pairs of clauses in Hebrew poetry that mean basically the same thing. Alternate translation: [God, the Holy One, came from the desert region south of Israel]
Note 2 topic: translate-names
מִתֵּימָ֣ן
(Some words not found in UHB: god from,Teman came and_[the],holy_[one] from=hill Pāʼrān selah covers heavens splendor_of,his and,praise_of,his she/it_is_full the=earth/land )
The word Teman is the name of a region in Edom, south of Israel.
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis
וְקָד֥וֹשׁ מֵֽהַר־פָּארָ֖ן
and_[the],holy_[one] from=hill (Some words not found in UHB: god from,Teman came and_[the],holy_[one] from=hill Pāʼrān selah covers heavens splendor_of,his and,praise_of,his she/it_is_full the=earth/land )
Habakkuk is leaving out some of the words that in many languages a sentence would need in order to be complete. You can supply these words from the context if that would be clearer in your language. Alternate translation: [and the Holy One traveled from Mount Paran]
Note 4 topic: translate-names
מֵֽהַר־פָּארָ֖ן
from=hill (Some words not found in UHB: god from,Teman came and_[the],holy_[one] from=hill Pāʼrān selah covers heavens splendor_of,his and,praise_of,his she/it_is_full the=earth/land )
The term Mount Paran is the name of a mountainous region south of Edom, possibly the southern portion of the Sinai Peninsula.
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
כִּסָּ֤ה שָׁמַ֨יִם֙ הוֹד֔וֹ
(Some words not found in UHB: god from,Teman came and_[the],holy_[one] from=hill Pāʼrān selah covers heavens splendor_of,his and,praise_of,his she/it_is_full the=earth/land )
Habakkuk is speaking of God’s splendor as if it were a blanket that could cover the heavens. Your language may have a comparable expression that you can use in your translation, or you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [He spread his splendor across the heavens]
Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
וּתְהִלָּת֖וֹ מָלְאָ֥ה הָאָֽרֶץ
(Some words not found in UHB: god from,Teman came and_[the],holy_[one] from=hill Pāʼrān selah covers heavens splendor_of,his and,praise_of,his she/it_is_full the=earth/land )
Habakkuk is speaking of God’s praise as if the earth were a vessel that his praise could fill. Your language may have a comparable expression that you can use in your translation, or you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [and people throughout the earth praised him]
OET-LV god[fn] from_Tēymān he_comes and_the_holy_one from_hill of_Pāʼrān Şelāh splendour_of_his it_has_covered the_heavens and_praise_of_his the_earth/land it_has_filled.
3:3 OSHB note: We agree with both BHS 1997 and BHQ on an unexpected reading.
OET (OET-RV) God came in from Teyman in Edom,
⇔ and the sinless one from Mt. Paran. (Instrumental break.)
⇔ His splendour blanketed the skies,
⇔ ≈ and the earth was full of his praise.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.