Habakuk 3:7

3:7 I see the tents of Cushan overwhelmed by trouble; ¹ 

the tent curtains of the land of Midian are shaking. ² 

Habakuk 3:12

3:12 You furiously stomp on the earth,

you angrily trample down the nations.

[3:7]  ¹ tn Heb “under trouble I saw the tents of Cushan.”

[3:7]  sn Cushan was located in southern Transjordan.

[3:7]  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.”