Habakkuk 3:5
New International Version
Plague went before him; pestilence followed his steps.

New Living Translation
Pestilence marches before him; plague follows close behind.

English Standard Version
Before him went pestilence, and plague followed at his heels.

Berean Standard Bible
Plague went before Him, and fever followed in His steps.

King James Bible
Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.

New King James Version
Before Him went pestilence, And fever followed at His feet.

New American Standard Bible
Before Him goes plague, And plague comes forth after Him.

NASB 1995
Before Him goes pestilence, And plague comes after Him.

NASB 1977
Before Him goes pestilence, And plague comes after Him.

Legacy Standard Bible
Before Him goes pestilence, And plague comes after Him.

Amplified Bible
Before Him goes the pestilence [of judgment as in Egypt], And [the burning] plague [of condemnation] follows at His feet [as in Sennacherib’s army].

Christian Standard Bible
Plague goes before him, and pestilence follows in his steps.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Plague goes before Him, and pestilence follows in His steps.

American Standard Version
Before him went the pestilence, And fiery bolts went forth at his feet.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Before him went death and a bird of prey went out at his feet

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Before his face shall go a report, and it shall go forth into the plains,

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

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

English Revised Version
Before him went the pestilence, and fiery bolts went forth at his feet.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Diseases go ahead of him. Plagues follow after him.

Good News Translation
He sends disease before him and commands death to follow him.

International Standard Version
Before him pestilence walks, and disease follows behind him.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Before him goeth the pestilence, And fiery bolts go forth at His feet.

Literal Standard Version
Before Him goes pestilence, | And a burning flame goes forth at His feet.

Majority Standard Bible
Plague went before Him, and fever followed in His steps.

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

NET Bible
Plague goes before him; pestilence marches right behind him.

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

New Heart English Bible
Plague went before him, and pestilence followed his feet.

Webster's Bible Translation
Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.

World English Bible
Plague went before him, and pestilence followed his feet.

Young's Literal Translation
Before Him goeth pestilence, And a burning flame goeth forth at His feet.

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Context
Habakkuk's Prayer
4His radiance was like the sunlight; rays flashed from His hand, where His power is hidden. 5Plague went before Him, and fever followed in His steps. 6He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.…

Cross References
Exodus 12:29
Now at midnight the LORD struck down every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn among the livestock.

Exodus 12:30
During the night Pharaoh got up--he and all his officials and all the Egyptians--and there was loud wailing in Egypt; for there was no house without someone dead.

Numbers 11:1
Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.

Numbers 16:46
Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun."

Psalm 18:12
From the brightness of His presence His clouds advanced--hailstones and coals of fire.

Psalm 18:13
The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded--hailstones and coals of fire.

Psalm 97:3
Fire goes before Him and consumes His foes on every side.


Treasury of Scripture

Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.

went.

Exodus 12:29,30
And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle…

Numbers 14:12
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

Numbers 16:46-49
And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun…

and.

Psalm 18:7-13
Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth…

burning coals.

Deuteronomy 32:24
They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

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Habakkuk 3
1. Habakkuk, in his prayer, trembles at God's majesty.
17. The confidence of his faith.














(5) Before him went the pestilence. . . .--Better, Before Him shall go the plague, and burning pestilence shall go forth where He sets His feet. Kleinert remarks that it was with these angels of death that Jehovah revealed Himself in the south, and destroyed the armies of Sennacherib (2Kings 19:35).

Verse 5. - After describing the splendour of the theophany, the prophet now turns to the purpose and effects of God's appearing. He comes to avenge and judge, therefore before him went the pestilence. Before him stalks plague, to punish his enemies and the disobedient, as in Egypt, in Canaan (Exodus 23:27; 1 Samuel 5:9, 11); and among his own people (Numbers 11:33; Numbers 14:37, etc.; Leviticus 26:25). For "pestilence" the LXX. reads "word." Burning coals went forth at his feet. "Fiery belts" followed his advance, "hailstones and coals of fire" (Psalm 18:12, 13); as in Psalm 97:8, "A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies on every side." But, regarding the parallelisms of the hemistiches, it is better to take resheph in the sense of "fever heat," as in Deuteronomy 32:24; scorching fever follows in his train. Jerome translates the word, diabolus, looking on the evil spirit as the agent of the Divine vengeance. The Jews, he says, had a tradition that Satan was called Reseph, from the speed of his movements. The LXX. has, "It (the word) shall go forth into the plains," which Jerome interprets, "shall make the crooked straight and the rough ways smooth."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Plague
דָּ֑בֶר (dā·ḇer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1698: A pestilence

went
יֵ֣לֶךְ (yê·leḵ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

before Him,
לְפָנָ֖יו (lə·p̄ā·nāw)
Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6440: The face

and pestilence
רֶ֖שֶׁף (re·šep̄)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7565: A live coal, lightning, an arrow, fever

followed
וְיֵצֵ֥א (wə·yê·ṣê)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim

in His steps.
לְרַגְלָֽיו׃ (lə·raḡ·lāw)
Preposition-l | Noun - fdc | third person masculine singular
Strong's 7272: A foot, a step, the pudenda


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