Habakkuk 3:9

God readies His bow and arrows and splits the earth with rivers, depicted as a warrior armed for battle. It portrays God taking up His weapons to act on behalf of His people.

Cross-references · 20

• Ps 7:12–13If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
• Ps 78:15–16He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
• Ps 105:41He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.
• Luke 1:72–75To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;
• Isa 52:10The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
• Lam 2:4He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.
• Heb 6:13–18For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
• 1 Cor 10:4And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
• Num 20:11And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.
• Exod 17:6Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
• Deut 32:23I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
• Isa 51:9–10Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
• Ps 105:8–11He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
• Ps 143:6I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
• Ps 35:1–3Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
• Gen 17:7–8And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
• Gen 28:13–14And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
• Gen 15:18–21In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
• Gen 26:3–4Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
• Gen 22:16–18And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:

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