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God’s Salvation of His People

A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, set to 1wild and enthusiastic music.

2 O LORD, I have aheard the report about You and I bfear.O LORD, crevive dYour work in the midst of the years,In the midst of the years make it known;In wrath earnestly eremember compassion and love.
3 God approaching from Sinai comes from aTeman (Edom) ,And the Holy One from 1Mount bParan.Selah 2(pause, and calmly think of that).His csplendor and majesty covers the heavensAnd the dearth is full of His praise.4 His abrightness is like the sunlight;He has bright rays flashing from His hand,And there in the sunlike splendor is the hiding place of His bpower.5 Before Him goes the apestilence of judgment as in Egypt,And the burning bplague of condemnation follows at His feet as in Sennacherib’s army. Ex 7:2-4; 2+@Kin 19:32-356 He stood and measured the earth;He looked and astartled the nations,Yes, the eternal mountains were shattered,The ancient hills bowed low and collapsed.His ways are beternal.7 I Habakkuk, in my vision saw the tents of Cushan under adistress;The tent curtains of the land of bMidian were trembling.
8 Did the LORD rage against the arivers,Or was Your anger against the rivers,Or was Your wrath against the Red bSea,That You crode on Your horses,On Your dchariots of salvation?9 Your abow was made bare;The rods of chastisement were sworn.Selah (pause, calmly think of that).You bsplit the earth with rivers bringing waters to dry places. Ex 17:6; Num 20:1110 The mountains saw You and they trembled and writhed as if in pain;The downpour of waters swept by as a deluge.The deep auttered its voice and raged,It lifted its hands high.11 The asun and moon stood in their places as before Joshua;They went away at the blight of Your swift arrows,At the radiance and gleam of Your glittering spear. Josh 10:12, 1312 In indignation You amarched through the earth;In anger You btrampled and threshed the nations.13 You went forth for the asalvation of Your people,For the salvation and rescue of Your banointed people Israel.You struck the 1chead from the house of the wickedTo lay him open from the thigh to the neck.Selah (pause, and calmly think of that).14 With the enemy’s aown spears, You piercedThe head of his hordes.They bstormed out to scatter us,Rejoicing like thoseWho secretly cdevour the oppressed of Israel.15 You have atrampled on the sea with Your horses,On the bsurge of many waters. Ex 15:8
16 I heard and my whole inner self atrembled;My lips quivered at the sound.Decay and rottenness enter my bbones,And I tremble in my place.Because I must cwait quietly for the day of distress,For the dpeople to arise who will invade and attack us.17 Though the afig tree does not blossomAnd there is no fruit on the vines,Though the yield of the bolive failsAnd the fields produce no food,Though the cflock is cut off from the foldAnd there are dno cattle in the stalls,18 Yet I will choose to arejoice in the LORD;I will choose to bshout in exultation in the victorious cGod of my salvation! Rom 8:3719 The Lord GOD is my astrength my source of courage, my invincible army;bHe has made my feet steady and sure like hinds’ feetAnd makes me walk forward with spiritual confidence on my 1chigh places of challenge and responsibility.For the choir director, on my stringed instruments.
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