Habakkuk 3:6
Good News Translation
When he stops, the earth shakes; at his glance the nations tremble. The eternal mountains are shattered; the everlasting hills sink down, the hills where he walked in ancient times.

New Revised Standard Version
He stopped and shook the earth; he looked and made the nations tremble. The eternal mountains were shattered; along his ancient pathways the everlasting hills sank low.

Contemporary English Version
When you stopped, the earth shook; when you stared, nations trembled; when you walked along your ancient paths, eternal mountains and hills crumbled and collapsed.

New American Bible
He stood and shook the earth; he looked and made the nations tremble. Ancient mountains were shattered, the age-old hills bowed low, age-old orbits collapsed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He 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.

and measured.

Exodus 15:17 Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thy inheritance, in thy most firm habitation, which thou hast made, O Lord; thy sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.

Exodus 21:31 If he have gored a son, or a daughter, he shall fall under the like sentence.

Numbers 34:1-29 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: . . .

Deuteronomy 32:8 When the Most High divided the nations: when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the bounds of people according to the number of the children of Israel.

Acts 17:26 And hath made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, determining appointed times and the limits of their habitation.

and drove.

Joshua 10:42 And all their kings, and their lands he took and wasted at one onset: for the Lord the God of Israel fought for him.

Joshua 11:18-23 Joshua made war a long time against these kings. . . .

Nehemiah 9:22-24 And thou gavest them kingdoms, and nations, and didst divide lots for them: and they possessed the land of Sehon, and the land of the king of Hesebon, and the land of Og king of Basan. . . .

Psalm 135:8-12 He slew the firstborn of Egypt from man even unto beast. . . .

the everlasting.

Habakkuk 3:10 The mountains saw thee, and were grieved: the great body of waters passed away. The deep put forth its voice: the deep lifted up its hands.

Genesis 49:26 The blessings of thy father are strengthened with the blessings of his fathers: until the desire of the everlasting hills should come: may they be upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the Nazarite among his brethren.

Deuteronomy 33:15 Of the tops of the ancient mountains, of the fruits of the everlasting hills:

Judges 5:5 The mountains melted before the face of the Lord, and Sinai before the face of the Lord the God of Israel.

Psalm 68:16 Why suspect, ye curdled mountains? A mountain in which God is well pleased to dwell: for there the Lord shall dwell unto the end.

Psalm 114:4-7 The mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like the lambs of the flock. . . .

Isaiah 64:1-3 O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, and wouldst come down: the mountains would melt away at thy presence. . . .

Nahum 1:5 The mountains tremble at him, and the hills are made desolate: and the earth hath quaked at his presence, and the world, and all that dwell therein.

Zechariah 14:4,5 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is over against Jerusalem towards the east: and the mount of Olives shall be divided in the midst thereof to the east, and to the west with a very great opening, and half of the mountain shall be separated to the north, and half thereof to the south. . . .

his.

Psalm 90:2 Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was formed; from eternity and to eternity thou art God.

Psalm 103:17 But the mercy of the Lord is from eternity and unto eternity upon them that fear him: And his justice unto children's children,

Isaiah 51:6,8 Lift up your eyes to heaven, and look down to the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish like smoke, and the earth shall be worn away like a garment, and the inhabitants thereof shall perish in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my justice shall not fail. . . .

Micah 5:8 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples, as a dew from the Lord, and as drops upon the grass, which waiteth not for man, nor tarrieth for the children of men.

Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass: but my words shall not pass.

Luke 1:50 And his mercy is from generation unto generations, to them that fear him.

Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today: and the same for ever.

Context
Habakkuk's Prayer
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.7I saw the tents of Ethiopia for their iniquity, the curtains of the land of Madian shall be troubled.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:15
Of the tops of the ancient mountains, of the fruits of the everlasting hills:

Job 21:18
They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.

Psalm 35:5
Let them become as dust before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord straiten them.

Psalm 114:4
The mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like the lambs of the flock.

Habakkuk 1:12
Wast thou not from the beginning, O Lord my God, my holy one, and we shall not die? Lord, thou hast appointed him for judgment: and made him strong for correction.

Zechariah 14:4
And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is over against Jerusalem towards the east: and the mount of Olives shall be divided in the midst thereof to the east, and to the west with a very great opening, and half of the mountain shall be separated to the north, and half thereof to the south.

Habakkuk 3:5
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