In the theophany poem, Habakkuk says “the sun and moon stood still in their place” as God’s arrows and spear flash. The line is part of imagery showing creation responding to God’s advance. This is in Habakkuk 3:11.
Habakkuk 3:8–11 pictures Yahweh arriving like a warrior whose coming shakes nature. These lines sit inside Habakkuk’s closing prayer-song (chapter 3), which recalls God’s powerful interventions to steady the prophet’s fear about looming national crisis. Earlier chapters present complaint and response; here the tone becomes poetic and visionary, describing God’s march into history and the world.
Habakkuk 3:8–11 presents Yahweh as a divine warrior whose arrival overwhelms the created world. The repeated questions about “rivers” and “sea” steer the reader away from thinking God’s target is water itself and toward seeing nature as the stage on which God acts.
A careful answer keeps the immediate passage, the book's argument, and the whole-Bible storyline together, so the question is answered in context instead of as a detached idea.
Start with Habakkuk 3:11, then read the surrounding section so the answer stays connected to the passage's flow.
11The sun and moon stood still in the sky, At the light of your arrows as they went, At the shining of your glittering spear.