The report of it all fills the poet with trembling (ver. 16 returns upon ver. 26), and although his language is too obscure to permit us to follow with certainty the course of his feeling, he appears to await in confidence the issue of Israel’s present troubles. His argument seems to be, that such a God may be trusted still, in face of approaching invasion (ver. 16). The next verse, however, does not express the experience of trouble from human foes; but figuring the extreme affliction of drought, barrenness and poverty, the poet speaking in the name of Israel declares that, in spite of them, he will still rejoice in the God of their salvation (ver. 17). So sudden is this change from human foes to natural plagues, that some scholars have here felt a passage to another poem describing a different situation. But the last lines with their confidence in the _God of salvation_, a term always used of deliverance from enemies, and the boast, borrowed from the Eighteenth Psalm, _He maketh my feet like to hinds’ feet, and gives me to march on my heights_, reflect the same circumstances as the bulk of the Psalm, and offer no grounds to doubt the unity of the whole.[421] PSALM[422] OF HABAKKUK THE PROPHET. _LORD, I have heard the report of Thee; I stand in awe![423] LORD, revive Thy work in the midst of the years, In the midst of the years make Thee known;[424] In turmoil[425] remember mercy!_ _God comes from Teman,[426] The Holy from Mount Paran.[427] He covers the heavens with His glory, And filled with His praise is the earth. The flash is like lightning; He has rays from each hand of Him, Therein[428] is the ambush of His might._ _Pestilence travels before Him, The plague-fire breaks forth at His feet. He stands and earth shakes,[429] He looks and drives nations asunder; And the ancient mountains are cloven, The hills everlasting sink down._ These be _His ways from of old_.[430]