Parallel Verses

Amplified


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.

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

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

A Conservative 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.

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.

Bible in Basic English

At the light of your arrows they went away, at the shining of your polished spear.

Darby 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.

Julia Smith 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.

King James 2000

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.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Sun [and] moon stood still in [their] place; at the light of your arrows they moved about; at the gleam of the flashing of your spear.

Modern King James verseion

The sun and moon stood still in their dwelling. At the light of Your arrows they go, and at the shining of Your gleaming spear.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The Sun and Moon remained still in their habitation. Thine arrows went out glistering, and thy spears as the shine of the lightning.

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.

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.

The Emphasized Bible

Sun, moon, have stood still, on high, - like light, thine arrows, speed along, like brightness, is the flash of thy spear.

Webster

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.

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
The sun
שׁמשׁ 
Shemesh 
Usage: 134

and moon
ירח 
Yareach 
Usage: 26

זבל זבוּל 
Z@buwl 
Usage: 5

at the light
אור 
'owr 
Usage: 122

חץ 
Chets 
Usage: 53

הלך 
Halak 
go, walk, come, ...away, ...along,
Usage: 1545

and at the shining
נגהּ 
Nogahh 
Usage: 19

בּרק 
Baraq 
Usage: 21

References

Context Readings

The Prayer Of Habakkuk

10
The mountains saw You and [they] trembled and writhed [as if in pain];
The downpour of waters swept by [as a deluge].
The deep uttered its voice and raged,
It lifted its hands high.
11 
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.
12
In indignation You marched through the earth;
In anger You trampled and threshed the nations.


Cross References

Joshua 10:11-13

As they fled before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth-horon, the Lord threw down large stones [of hail] from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died. More [Amorites] died because of the hailstones than those whom the sons of Israel killed with the sword.

Psalm 18:12-14


Out of the brightness before Him passed His thick clouds,
Hailstones and coals of fire.

Psalm 19:4


Yet their voice [in quiet evidence] has gone out through all the earth,
Their words to the end of the world.
In them and in the heavens He has made a tent for the sun,

Psalm 77:17-18


The clouds poured down water;
The skies sent out a sound [of rumbling thunder];
Your arrows (lightning) flashed here and there.

Psalm 144:5-6


Bow Your heavens, O Lord, and come down;
Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.

Isaiah 28:21


For the Lord will rise up as at Mount Perazim,
He will be stirred up as in the Valley of Gibeon,
To do His work, His unusual and incredible work,
And to accomplish His work, His extraordinary work.

Isaiah 38:8

Listen carefully, I will turn the shadow on the stairway [denoting the time of day] ten steps backward, the shadow on the stairway (sundial) of Ahaz.” And the sunlight went ten steps backward on the stairway where it had [previously] gone down.

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