Habakkuk 3:5
Good News Translation
He sends disease before him and commands death to follow him.

New Revised Standard Version
Before him went pestilence, and plague followed close behind.

Contemporary English Version
Dreadful diseases and plagues marched in front and followed behind.

New American Bible
Before him went pestilence, and plague followed in his steps.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Death shall go before his face. And the devil shall go forth before his feet.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Death shall go before his face. And the devil shall go forth before his feet.

went.

Exodus 12:29,30 And it came to pass at midnight, the Lord slew every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharao, who sat on his throne, unto the firstborn of the captive woman that was in the prison, and all the firstborn of cattle. . . .

Numbers 14:12 I will strike them therefore with pestilence, and will consume them: but thee I will make a ruler over a great nation, and a mightier than this is.

Numbers 16:46-49 Moses said to Aaron: Take the censer, and putting fire in it from the altar, put incense upon it, and go quickly to the people to pray for them: for already wrath is gone out from the Lord, and the plague rageth. . . .

Psalm 78:50,51 He made a way for a path to his anger: he spared not their souls from death, and their cattle he shut up in death. . . .

Nahum 1:2,3 The Lord is a jealous God, and a revenger: the Lord is a revenger, and hath wrath: the Lord taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and he is angry with his enemies. . . .

and.

Psalm 18:7-13 The earth shook and trembled: the foundations of the mountains were troubled and were moved, because he was angry with them. . . .

burning coals.

Deuteronomy 32:24 They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them with a most bitter bite: I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, and of serpents.

Context
Habakkuk's Prayer
4His brightness shall be as the light: horns are in his hands: There is his strength hid: 5Death shall go before his face. And the devil shall go forth before his feet.6He stood and measured the earth. He beheld, and melted the nations: and the ancient mountains were crushed to pieces. The hills of the world were bowed down by the journeys of his eternity.…
Cross References
Exodus 12:29
And it came to pass at midnight, the Lord slew every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharao, who sat on his throne, unto the firstborn of the captive woman that was in the prison, and all the firstborn of cattle.

Exodus 12:30
And Pharao arose in the night, and all his servants, and all Egypt: and there arose a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house wherein there lay not one dead.

Numbers 11:1
In the mean time there arose a murmuring of the people against the Lord, as it were repining at their fatigue. And when the Lord heard it he was angry. And the fire of the Lord being kindled against them, devoured them that were at the uttermost part of the camp.

Numbers 16:46
Moses said to Aaron: Take the censer, and putting fire in it from the altar, put incense upon it, and go quickly to the people to pray for them: for already wrath is gone out from the Lord, and the plague rageth.

Psalm 18:12
At the brightness that was before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.

Psalm 18:13
And the Lord thundered from heaven, and the Highest gave his voice: hail and coals of fire.

Psalm 97:3
A fire shall go before him, and shall burn his enemies round about.

Habakkuk 3:4
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