Habakkuk 3:7

I see the tents of Cushan overwhelmed by trouble; ¹  the tent curtains of the land of Midian are shaking. ² 

Ge 10:6,7; Ge 25:1-4; Ex 15:14-16; Nu 22:3,4; Nu 31:2-12; Jos 2:10; Jos 9:24; Ps 83:5-10

¹ tn Heb “under trouble I saw the tents of Cushan.”

sn Cushan was located in southern Transjordan.

² tn R. D. Patterson takes תַּחַת אֲוֶן (takhat ’aven) in the first line as a place name, “Tahath-Aven.” (Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah [WEC], 237.) In this case one may translate the verse as a tricolon: “I look at Tahath-Aven. The tents of Cushan are shaking, the tent curtains of the land of Midian.”