Habakkuk 2:14

2:14 For recognition of the Lord’s sovereign majesty will fill the earth

just as the waters fill up the sea.

Habakkuk 3:10

3:10 When the mountains see you, they shake.

The torrential downpour sweeps through.

The great deep shouts out;

it lifts its hands high.


tn Heb “for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, just as the waters cover over the sea.”

tn Heb “a heavy rain of waters passes by.” Perhaps the flash floods produced by the downpour are in view here.

sn The great deep, which is to be equated with the sea (vv. 8, 15), is a symbol of chaos and represents the Lord’s enemies.

sn Lifting the hands here suggests panic and is accompanied by a cry for mercy (see Ps 28:2; Lam 2:19). The forces of chaos cannot withstand the Lord’s power revealed in the storm.