Holy Scripture

Habakkuk 3:5

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 5.) Before his face, death will go, and the devil will go forth before his feet. LXX: Before his face, the word will go, and it will go forth into the field behind his feet. For because we have translated death, in Hebrew three letters are placed, Daleth, Beth, Res, without any vowel, which if they are read as…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Habakkuk

Source: Septuagint

Original

5Before his face shall go a report, And it shall go forth into the plains,

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In context

3God shall come from Teman, And the Holy One from the dark shady Mount Paran. Pause.

4His 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.

— Habakkuk 3:5 —

6The earth stood at his feet and trembled: He beheld, and the nations melted away: The mountains were violently burst through, The everlasting hills melted at his everlasting going forth.

7Because of troubles I looked upon the tents of the Ethiopians: The tabernacles also of the land of Midian shall be dismayed.

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