Habakkuk 3:14

God turns the enemy's own weapons against them as they storm in to scatter and devour His helpless people. It shows God overturning the schemes of the wicked to rescue the vulnerable.

Cross-references · 18

• Zech 9:14Yahweh will be seen over them; and his arrow will go flash like lightning; and the Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds of the south.
• Dan 11:40At the time of the end shall the king of the south contend with him; and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass through.
• Ps 118:10–12All the nations surrounded me, but in Yahweh’s name, I cut them off.
• Exod 11:4–7Moses said, “This is what Yahweh says: ‘About midnight I will go out into the middle of Egypt,
• Exod 14:17–18Behold, I myself will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall go in after them: and I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.
• Exod 1:10–16Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape out of the land.”
• Exod 1:22Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”
• Exod 12:12–13For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Yahweh.
• Judg 7:22They blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set every man’s sword against his fellow, and against all the army; and the army fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.
• Exod 14:5–9The king of Egypt was told that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?”
• Exod 12:29–30At midnight, Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of livestock.
• Ps 10:8He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
• Exod 15:9–10The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.’
• Ps 64:2–7Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;
• Ps 78:50–51He made a path for his anger. He didn’t spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,
• Ps 83:2For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
• Acts 4:27–28“For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together
• Ps 83:8–11Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah.

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