Habakkuk 3:13
Good News Translation
You went out to save your people, to save your chosen king. You struck down the leader of the wicked and completely destroyed his followers.

New Revised Standard Version
You came forth to save your people, to save your anointed. You crushed the head of the wicked house, laying it bare from foundation to roof. Selah

Contemporary English Version
to rescue your people and save your chosen one. You crushed a nation's ruler and stripped his evil kingdom of its power.

New American Bible
You came forth to save your people, to save your anointed one. You crushed the back of the wicked, you laid him bare, bottom to neck. Selah

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people: for salvation with thy Christ. Thou struckest the head of the house of the wicked: thou hast laid bare his foundation even to the neck.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people: for salvation with thy Christ. Thou struckest the head of the house of the wicked: thou hast laid bare his foundation even to the neck.

wentest.

Exodus 14:13,14 And Moses said to the people: Fear not: stand, and see the great wonders of the Lord, which he will do this day; for the Egyptians, whom you see now, you shall see no more for ever. . . .

Exodus 15:1,2 Then Moses and the children of Israel sung this canticle to the Lord, and said: Let us sing to the Lord: for he is gloriously magnified, the horse and the rider he hath thrown into the sea. . . .

Psalm 68:7,19-23 O God, when thou didst go forth in the sight of thy people, when thou didst pass through the desert: . . .

with.

Psalm 77:20 Thou hast conducted thy people like sheep, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Psalm 89:19-21 Then thou spokest in a vision to thy saints, and saidst: I have laid help upon one that is mighty, and have exalted one chosen out of my people. . . .

Psalm 99:6 Moses and Aaron among his priests: and Samuel among them that call upon his name. They called upon the Lord, and he heard them:

Psalm 105:15,26 Touch ye not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets. . . .

Isaiah 63:11 And he remembered the days of old of Moses, and of his people: Where is he that brought them up out of the sea, with the shepherds of his flock? where is he that put in the midst of them the spirit of his Holy One?

thou woundedst.

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. . . .

Joshua 10:11,24,42 And when they were fleeing from the children of Israel, and were in the descent of Bethoron, the Lord cast down upon them great stones from heaven, as far as Azeca: and many more were killed with the hailstones, than were slain by the swords of the children of Israel, . . .

Joshua 11:8,12 And the Lord delivered them into the hands of Israel. And they defeated them, and chased them as far as the great Sidon and the waters of Maserophot, and the field of Masphe, which is on the east thereof. He slew them all, so as to leave no remains of them: . . .

Psalm 18:37-45 I will pursue after my enemies, and overtake them: and I will not turn again till they are consumed. . . .

Psalm 68:21 But God shall break the heads of his enemies: the hairy crown of them that walk on in their sins.

Psalm 74:13,14 Thou by thy strength didst make the sea firm: thou didst crush the heads of the dragons in the waters. . . .

Psalm 110:6 He shall judge among nations, he shall fill ruins: he shall crush the heads in the land of many.

discovering.

Context
Habakkuk's Prayer
12In thy anger thou wilt tread the earth under foot: in thy wrath thou wilt astonish the nations. 13Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people: for salvation with thy Christ. Thou struckest the head of the house of the wicked: thou hast laid bare his foundation even to the neck.14Thou hast cursed his sceptres, the head of his warriors, them that came out as a whirlwind to scatter me. Their joy was like that of him that devoureth the poor man in secret.…
Cross References
Exodus 15:2
The Lord is my strength and my praise, and he is become salvation to me: he is my God, and I will glorify him: the God of my father, and I will exalt him.

2 Samuel 5:20
And David came to Baal Pharisim: and defeated them there, and he said, The Lord hath divided my enemies before me, as waters are divided. Therefore the name of the place was called Baal Pharisim.

Psalm 20:6
The Lord fulfil all thy petitions: now have I known that the Lord hath saved his anointed. He will hear him from his holy heaven: the salvation of his right hand is in powers.

Psalm 28:8
The Lord is the strength of his people, and the protector of the salvation of his anointed.

Psalm 68:7
O God, when thou didst go forth in the sight of thy people, when thou didst pass through the desert:

Psalm 68:19
Blessed be the Lord day by day: the God of our salvation will make our journey prosperous to us.

Psalm 68:20
Our God is the God of salvation: and of the Lord, of the Lord are the issues from death.

Psalm 68:21
But God shall break the heads of his enemies: the hairy crown of them that walk on in their sins.

Psalm 110:6
He shall judge among nations, he shall fill ruins: he shall crush the heads in the land of many.

Psalm 137:7
Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem: Who say: Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

Isaiah 64:1
O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, and wouldst come down: the mountains would melt away at thy presence.

Ezekiel 13:14
And I will break down the wall that you have daubed with untempered mortar: and I will make it even with the ground, and the foundation thereof shall be laid bare: and it shall fall, and shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and you shall know that I am the Lord.

Amos 9:1
They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say: Thy God, O Dan, liveth: and the way of Bersabee liveth: and they shall fall, and shall rise no more.

Habakkuk 3:12
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