Habakkuk 3:15
You trampled the sea with Your horses, churning the great waters.
BSB
ASV
Thou didst tread the sea with thy horses, The heap of mighty waters.
KJV
Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters.
(Verse 14 and following) You have cursed his scepters, the heads of his warriors, who come like a whirlwind to scatter me. Their rejoicing is like that of someone who devours the poor in secret. You have made a path in the sea for your horses, in the mud of many waters. I heard, and my stomach trembled; at the sound my lips quivered. Let decay enter my bones, and let it rage beneath me: so that I may rest on the day of my tribulation, so that I may rise up against our encircled people.
Thou didst walk through the sea with Thine horses - God Himself is pictured as leading them on the way, Himself at the head of their multitude, having, as Asaph said of old “His path in the sea.” So Isaiah Isa 63:13. “who leddest them in the depths;” and Zechariah Zec 10:11. “And he shall pass through the sea.” God was literally there; for Act 17:28. “in Him we live and move and have our being.” He who “is wholly everywhere but the whole of Him nowhere” manifested His Presence there.
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The walk8
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Habakkuk 3:8Were You angry at the rivers, O LORD? Was Your wrath against the streams? Did You rage against the sea when You rode on Your horses, on Your chariots of salvation?
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Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were…
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
The chariots of God are tens of thousands— thousands of thousands are they; the Lord is in His sanctuary as He was at Sinai.
“There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.
Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,
He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.
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Exodus 15:8At the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up; like a wall the currents stood firm; the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.
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By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.
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Psalms 77:19Your path led through the sea, Your way through the mighty waters, but Your footprints were not to be found.
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The waters flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had chased the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.
The LORD sits enthroned over the flood; the LORD is enthroned as King forever.
