Charles Ellicott Commentary Habakkuk 3:10

"The mountains saw thee, and were afraid; The tempest of waters passed by; The deep uttered its voice, And lifted up its hands on high." — Habakkuk 3:10 (ASV)

The mountains saw thee. —The earthquake at Sinai and the dividing of the Red Sea, the waters of which were lifted up as a wall on the right hand and on the left of Israel, lie at the basis of this description. This imagery, however, of sweeping floods and quaking mountains is usual in poetical accounts of Divine interposition.