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Habakkuk 3:11-18 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

11. The sun and moon stood still in the sky. They stopped because your flying arrows flashed by. Your gleaming spear shone like lightning.

12. When you were angry, you marched across the earth. Because of your anger you destroyed the nations.

13. You came out to set your people free. You saved your chosen ones. You crushed Pharaoh, the leader of that evil land of Egypt. You stripped him from head to foot. [Selah

14. His soldiers rushed out to scatter us. They were laughing at us. They thought they would easily destroy us. They saw us as weak people who were trying to hide. So you wounded Pharaoh's head with his own spear.

15. Your horses charged into the Red Sea. They stirred up the great waters.

16. I listened and my heart pounded. My lips trembled at the sound. My bones seemed to rot. And my legs shook. But I will be patient. I'll wait for the day of trouble to come on Babylonia. It's the nation that is attacking us.

17. The fig trees might not bud. The vines might not produce any grapes. The olive crop might fail. The fields might not produce any food. There might not be any sheep in the pens. There might not be any cattle in the barns.

18. But I will still be glad because of what the Lord has done. God my Savior fills me with joy.

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