Habakkuk 3:10
Modern Translations
New International Version
the mountains saw you and writhed. Torrents of water swept by; the deep roared and lifted its waves on high.

New Living Translation
The mountains watched and trembled. Onward swept the raging waters. The mighty deep cried out, lifting its hands in submission.

English Standard Version
The mountains saw you and writhed; the raging waters swept on; the deep gave forth its voice; it lifted its hands on high.

Berean Study Bible
The mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high.

New American Standard Bible
The mountains saw You and quaked; The downpour of waters swept by. The deep raised its voice, It lifted high its hands.

NASB 1995
The mountains saw You and quaked; The downpour of waters swept by. The deep uttered forth its voice, It lifted high its hands.

NASB 1977
The mountains saw Thee and quaked; The downpour of waters swept by. The deep uttered forth its voice, It lifted high its hands.

Amplified Bible
The mountains saw You and [they] trembled and writhed [as if in pain]; The downpour of waters swept by [as a deluge]. The deep uttered its voice and raged, It lifted its hands high.

Christian Standard Bible
The mountains see you and shudder; a downpour of water sweeps by. The deep roars with its voice and lifts its waves high.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The mountains see You and shudder; a downpour of water sweeps by. The deep roars with its voice and lifts its waves high.

Contemporary English Version
mountains trembled at the sight of you; rain poured from the clouds; ocean waves roared and rose.

Good News Translation
When the mountains saw you, they trembled; water poured down from the skies. The waters under the earth roared, and their waves rose high.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The mountains look at you. They writhe in pain. Floodwaters pass by. The deep ocean roars. Its waves rise up high.

International Standard Version
When the mountains looked upon you, they trembled; the overflowing water passed by, the ocean shouted, and its waves surged upward.

NET Bible
When the mountains see you, they shake. The torrential downpour sweeps through. The great deep shouts out; it lifts its hands high.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.

New King James Version
The mountains saw You and trembled; The overflowing of the water passed by. The deep uttered its voice, And lifted its hands on high.

King James 2000 Bible
The mountains saw you, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered its voice, and lifted up its hands on high.

New Heart English Bible
The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.

World English Bible
The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.

American King James Version
The mountains saw you, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.

American Standard Version
The mountains saw thee, and were afraid; The tempest of waters passed by; The deep uttered its voice, And lifted up its hands on high.

A Faithful Version
The mountains have seen You and they tremble. The overflowing water passed over; the deep uttered its voice and lifted up its hands on high.

Darby Bible Translation
The mountains saw thee, they were in travail: Torrents of waters passed by; The deep uttered its voice, Lifted up its hands on high.

English Revised Version
The mountains saw thee, and were afraid; the tempest of waters passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.

Webster's Bible Translation
The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
The mountaines sawe thee, & they trembled: the streame of the water passed by: the deepe made a noyse, and lift vp his hand on hie.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
The mountaynes sawe thee and they trembled, the streame of the water passed by, the deepe made a noyse, and lift vp his handes on hye.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
When the mountaynes saw the, they were afrayed, ye water streame wete awaye: the depe made a noyse at the liftinge vp of thine honde.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Seen You—pained are mountains, "" An inundation of waters has passed over, "" The deep has given forth its voice, "" It has lifted up its hands high.

Young's Literal Translation
Seen thee -- pained are mountains, An inundation of waters hath passed over, Given forth hath the deep its voice, High its hands it hath lifted up.

Smith's Literal Translation
They saw thee, the mountains shall tremble: the pouring of the waters passed by: the deep gave his voice, he lifted up his hands on high.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Catholic Public Domain Version
They saw you, and the mountains grieved. The great body of waters crossed over. The abyss uttered its voice. The pinnacle lifted up its hands.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
The mountains saw you and they shook, and a downpour of waters passed through, and the deep up lifted its voice and lifted its hands up high!

Lamsa Bible
The mountains saw thee and they quaked; the downpour of the waters passed by; the deep uttered its voice and lifted up its hands on high.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
The mountains have seen Thee, and they tremble; The tempest of waters floweth over; the deep uttereth its voice, And lifteth up its hands on high.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The nations shall see thee and be in pain, as thou dost divide the moving waters: the deep uttered her voice, and raised her form on high.
















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