Habakkuk 3:4
New International Version
His splendor was like the sunrise; rays flashed from his hand, where his power was hidden.

New Living Translation
His coming is as brilliant as the sunrise. Rays of light flash from his hands, where his awesome power is hidden.

English Standard Version
His brightness was like the light; rays flashed from his hand; and there he veiled his power.

Berean Standard Bible
His radiance was like the sunlight; rays flashed from His hand, where His power is hidden.

King James Bible
And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.

New King James Version
His brightness was like the light; He had rays flashing from His hand, And there His power was hidden.

New American Standard Bible
His radiance is like the sunlight; He has rays flashing from His hand, And the hiding of His might is there.

NASB 1995
His radiance is like the sunlight; He has rays flashing from His hand, And there is the hiding of His power.

NASB 1977
His radiance is like the sunlight; He has rays flashing from His hand, And there is the hiding of His power.

Legacy Standard Bible
His brightness is like the sunlight; He has rays flashing from His hand, And there is the hiding of His strength.

Amplified Bible
His brightness is like the sunlight; He has [bright] rays flashing from His hand, And there [in the sunlike splendor] is the hiding place of His power.

Christian Standard Bible
His brilliance is like light; rays are flashing from his hand. This is where his power is hidden.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
His brilliance is like light; rays are flashing from His hand. This is where His power is hidden.

American Standard Version
And his brightness was as the light; He had rays coming forth from his hand; And there was the hiding of his power.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And his brightness shall be as the light; in the city of his hands he shall establish his strength in the region

Brenton Septuagint Translation
His excellence covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. And his brightness shall be as light; there were horns in his hands, and he caused a mighty love of his strength.

Contemporary English Version
Your glory shone like the sun, and light flashed from your hands, hiding your mighty power.

Douay-Rheims Bible
His brightness shall be as the light; horns are in his hands: There is his strength hid:

English Revised Version
And his brightness was as the light; he had rays coming forth from his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
His brightness is like the sunlight. Rays of light [stream] from his hand. That is where his power is hidden.

Good News Translation
He comes with the brightness of lightning; light flashes from his hand, there where his power is hidden.

International Standard Version
His radiance is like sunlight; beams of light shine from his hand, where his strength lays hidden.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And a brightness appeareth as the light; Rays hath He at His side; And there is the hiding of His power.

Literal Standard Version
And the brightness is as the light, | He has rays out of His hand, | And there—the hiding of His strength.

Majority Standard Bible
His radiance was like the sunlight; rays flashed from His hand, where His power is hidden.

New American Bible
his splendor spread like the light. He raised his horns high, he rejoiced on the day of his strength.

NET Bible
He is as bright as lightning; a two-pronged lightning bolt flashes from his hand. This is the outward display of his power.

New Revised Standard Version
The brightness was like the sun; rays came forth from his hand, where his power lay hidden.

New Heart English Bible
His splendor is like the sunrise. Rays shine from his hand, where his power is hidden.

Webster's Bible Translation
And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand; and there was the hiding of his power.

World English Bible
His splendor is like the sunrise. Rays shine from his hand, where his power is hidden.

Young's Literal Translation
And the brightness is as the light, He hath rays out of His hand, And there -- the hiding of His strength.

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Context
Habakkuk's Prayer
3God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His glory covered the heavens, and His praise filled the earth. 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.…

Cross References
Job 26:14
Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?"

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


Treasury of Scripture

And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.

brightness.

Exodus 13:21
And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:

Exodus 14:20
And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.

Nehemiah 9:12
Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.

horns coming out of his hand.

Job 26:14
Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

Proverbs 18:10
The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.

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














(4) And his brightness was as the light. . . .--Better, And a brightness shall there be, like sunlight, and rays are at His side; and there [i.e., in this radiance] is the tabernacle of His power.

Verse 4. - His brightness was as the light; brightness appeareth like light, The sunlight is meant, as Job 31:26; Job 37:21; Isaiah 18:4. He had horns coming out of his hand; i.e. rays of light on either side. The comparison of the first rays of light to the horns of the gazelle, according to Keil, is common in Arabic poetry (comp. Exodus 34:29, 30). In the original passage, Deuteronomy 33:2, we read, "At his right hand was a fiery Law unto them" - a reference to the two tables of stone, perhaps resplendent with light. The "hand" in our text is a general expression, and is not to be taken with any special reference to lightning launched by the hand (which is not a scriptural expression), nor to works effected by God's agency, but simply as signifying that the light of his presence streamed forth from both sides, i.e. everywhere. There was the hiding of his power. There, in that ineffable light, was the hiding place of his majesty. He clothes himself with light as with a garment (Psalm 104:2), and the splendour is the mantle of that presence which eye of man cannot behold (Exodus 24:17; 1 Timothy 6:16). Farrar quotes Psalm 18:11, "He made darkness his secret place;" and Milton -

"Dark with excess of light his skirts appear." Septuagint, Αθετο ἀγάπησιν κραταιὰν ἰσχύος αὐτοῦ, which rendering has arisen from taking the adverb sham as a verb (sam), and mistaking the meaning of the following word.

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Hebrew
[His] radiance
וְנֹ֙גַהּ֙ (wə·nō·ḡah)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5051: Brilliancy

was
תִּֽהְיֶ֔ה (tih·yeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

like the sunlight;
כָּא֣וֹר (kā·’ō·wr)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's 216: Illumination, luminary

rays [flashed]
קַרְנַ֥יִם (qar·na·yim)
Noun - fd
Strong's 7161: A horn, a flask, cornet, an elephant's tooth, a corner, a peak, a ray, power

from His hand,
מִיָּד֖וֹ (mî·yā·ḏōw)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3027: A hand

where
וְשָׁ֖ם (wə·šām)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's 8033: There, then, thither

His power
עֻזֹּֽה׃‪‬‪‬ (‘uz·zōh)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5797: Strength, might

is hidden.
חֶבְי֥וֹן (ḥeḇ·yō·wn)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 2253: A hiding, hiding place


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