Habakkuk 3:11
Modern Translations
New International Version
Sun and moon stood still in the heavens at the glint of your flying arrows, at the lightning of your flashing spear.

New Living Translation
The sun and moon stood still in the sky as your brilliant arrows flew and your glittering spear flashed.

English Standard Version
The sun and moon stood still in their place at the light of your arrows as they sped, at the flash of your glittering spear.

Berean Study Bible
Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.

New American Standard Bible
Sun and moon stood in their lofty places; They went away at the light of Your arrows, At the radiance of Your flashing spear.

NASB 1995
Sun and moon stood in their places; They went away at the light of Your arrows, At the radiance of Your gleaming spear.

NASB 1977
Sun and moon stood in their places; They went away at the light of Thine arrows, At the radiance of Thy gleaming spear.

Amplified Bible
The sun and moon stood in their places [as before Joshua]; They went away at the light of Your [swift] arrows, At the radiance and gleam of Your glittering spear.

Christian Standard Bible
Sun and moon stand still in their lofty residence, at the flash of your flying arrows, at the brightness of your shining spear.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Sun and moon stand still in their lofty residence, at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.

Contemporary English Version
The sun and moon stood still, while your arrows and spears flashed like lightning.

Good News Translation
At the flash of your speeding arrows and the gleam of your shining spear, the sun and the moon stood still.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The sun and the moon stand still. They scatter at the light of your arrows, at the bright lightning of your spear.

International Standard Version
The sun and moon stand still in their orbits; at the glint of your arrows they speed along, even at the gleam of your flashing spear.

NET Bible
The sun and moon stand still in their courses; the flash of your arrows drives them away, the bright light of your lightning-quick spear.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.

New King James Version
The sun and moon stood still in their habitation; At the light of Your arrows they went, At the shining of Your glittering spear.

King James 2000 Bible
The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of your arrows they went, and at the shining of your glittering spear.

New Heart English Bible
The sun and moon stood still in the sky, at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.

World English Bible
The sun and moon stood still in the sky, at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.

American King James Version
The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of your arrows they went, and at the shining of your glittering spear.

American Standard Version
The sun and moon stood still in their habitation, At the light of thine arrows as they went, At the shining of thy glittering spear.

A Faithful Version
The sun and moon stood still in their lofty dwellings. At the light of Your arrows they go, and at the shining of Your glittering spear.

Darby Bible Translation
The sun [and] moon stood still in their habitation, At the light of thine arrows which shot forth, -- At the shining of thy glittering spear.

English Revised Version
The sun and moon stood still in their habitation; at the light of thine arrows as they went, at the shining of thy glittering spear.

Webster's Bible Translation
The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thy arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
The sunne and moone stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrowes they went, and at the bright shining of thy speares.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
The sonne and moone stoode still in their habitation, at the light of thyne arrowes they went, and at the bright shining of thy speares.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
The Sonne and Mone remayned still in their habitacion. Thine arowes wente out glisteringe, and thy speares as the shyne of the lightenynge.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Sun—moon—has stood—a habitation, "" Your arrows go on at the light, "" At the brightness, the glittering of Your spear.

Young's Literal Translation
Sun -- moon -- hath stood -- a habitation, At the light thine arrows go on, At the brightness, the glittering of thy spear.

Smith's Literal Translation
The sun, the moon stood in her habitation: at the light of thine arrows they will go, at the shining of the lightning of thy spear.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
The sun and the moon stood still in their habitation, in the light of thy arrows, they shall go in the brightness of thy glittering spear.

Catholic Public Domain Version
The sun and the moon have stood firm in their dwelling place; with the light of your arrows, they shall go forth in the splendor of your flashing spear.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
The sun and the moon stood still in their dwellings, and in the light of your arrows they walk and in the shining of the lightning of your spears!

Lamsa Bible
The sun and moon stood still in their habitations; at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spears.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
The sun and moon stand still in their habitation; At the light of Thine arrows as they go, At the shining of Thy glittering spear.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The sun was exalted, and the moon stood still in her course: thy darts shall go forth at the light, at the brightness of the gleaming of thine arms.
















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