Look, the Lord is leaving His place(A)
and coming down to trample
the heights[a] of the earth.(B)
The mountains will melt beneath Him,
and the valleys will split apart,
like wax near a fire,(C)
like water cascading down a mountainside.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 1:3 Or high places

Judgment Against Samaria and Jerusalem

Look! The Lord is coming from his dwelling(A) place;
    he comes down(B) and treads on the heights of the earth.(C)
The mountains melt(D) beneath him(E)
    and the valleys split apart,(F)
like wax before the fire,
    like water rushing down a slope.

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For, behold, the Lord cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.

And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.

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13 You come out to save Your people,
to save Your anointed.[a]
You crush the leader of the house of the wicked
and strip him from foot[b] to neck.Selah

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 3:13 The Davidic king or the nation of Israel
  2. Habakkuk 3:13 Lit foundation

13 You came out(A) to deliver(B) your people,
    to save your anointed(C) one.
You crushed(D) the leader of the land of wickedness,
    you stripped him from head to foot.

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13 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.

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