Habakkuk 3:4
Modern Translations
New International Version
His splendor was like the sunrise; rays flashed from his hand, where his power was hidden.

New Living Translation
His coming is as brilliant as the sunrise. Rays of light flash from his hands, where his awesome power is hidden.

English Standard Version
His brightness was like the light; rays flashed from his hand; and there he veiled his power.

Berean Study Bible
His radiance was like the sunlight; rays flashed from His hand, where His power is hidden.

New American Standard Bible
His radiance is like the sunlight; He has rays flashing from His hand, And the hiding of His might is there.

NASB 1995
His radiance is like the sunlight; He has rays flashing from His hand, And there is the hiding of His power.

NASB 1977
His radiance is like the sunlight; He has rays flashing from His hand, And there is the hiding of His power.

Amplified Bible
His brightness is like the sunlight; He has [bright] rays flashing from His hand, And there [in the sunlike splendor] is the hiding place of His power.

Christian Standard Bible
His brilliance is like light; rays are flashing from his hand. This is where his power is hidden.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
His brilliance is like light; rays are flashing from His hand. This is where His power is hidden.

Contemporary English Version
Your glory shone like the sun, and light flashed from your hands, hiding your mighty power.

Good News Translation
He comes with the brightness of lightning; light flashes from his hand, there where his power is hidden.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
His brightness is like the sunlight. Rays of light [stream] from his hand. That is where his power is hidden.

International Standard Version
His radiance is like sunlight; beams of light shine from his hand, where his strength lays hidden.

NET Bible
He is as bright as lightning; a two-pronged lightning bolt flashes from his hand. This is the outward display of his power.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.

New King James Version
His brightness was like the light; He had rays flashing from His hand, And there His power was hidden.

King James 2000 Bible
And his brightness was as the light; he had rays flashing out of his hand: and there was his power hidden.

New Heart English Bible
His splendor is like the sunrise. Rays shine from his hand, where his power is hidden.

World English Bible
His splendor is like the sunrise. Rays shine from his hand, where his power is hidden.

American King James Version
And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.

American Standard Version
And his brightness was as the light; He had rays coming forth from his hand; And there was the hiding of his power.

A Faithful Version
And His brightness is as the light; rays of power from His hand are His, and there is the hiding of His power.

Darby Bible Translation
And [his] brightness was as the light; Rays [came forth] from his hand; And there was the hiding of his power.

English Revised Version
And his brightness was as the light; he had rays coming forth from his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.

Webster's Bible Translation
And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand; and there was the hiding of his power.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And his brightnes was as the light: he had hornes coming out of his hands, and there was the hiding of his power.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And his brightnesse was as the light: he had hornes comming out of his handes, and there was the hyding of his power.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
His glory couereth the heauens, and the earth is full of his prayse. His shyne is as ye sonne, & beames of light go out of his hondes, there is his power hid.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And the brightness is as the light, "" He has rays out of His hand, "" And there—the hiding of His strength.

Young's Literal Translation
And the brightness is as the light, He hath rays out of His hand, And there -- the hiding of His strength.

Smith's Literal Translation
And the brightness will be as the light; horns to him from his hand; and he set the hiding of his strength.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
His brightness shall be as the light; horns are in his hands: There is his strength hid:

Catholic Public Domain Version
His brightness shall be like the light; horns are in his hands. There, his strength has been hidden.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And his brightness shall be as the light; in the city of his hands he shall establish his strength in the region

Lamsa Bible
And his brightness was as the light; in the city which his hands had established shall he store his power.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And a brightness appeareth as the light; Rays hath He at His side; And there is the hiding of His power.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
His 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.
















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