Habakkuk 3:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

Thy bow. [Nay] Thy how, &c.

naked. bare.

according to the oaths of the tribes... Selah. This second "Selah" (see App-66) is to connect the remarkable parenthetic statement with the continuation of the details of Israel's deliverances, which it interrupts, and might otherwise have disturbed. The text of this clause is not "corrupt", as alleged by some modern critics. The oaths are the promises sworn to the fathers or the tribes [of Israel] when still in the loins of the patriarchs.

with rivers. [and the waters gushed out] with rivers. See Psalms 74:15; Psalms 78:15; Psalms 78:16; Psalms 105:41.

Habakkuk 3:9

9 Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earthf with rivers.