Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power; Your right hand, O LORD, has shattered the enemy.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.
- KJV Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
- NKJV “Your right hand, O Lord, has become glorious in power; Your right hand, O Lord, has dashed the enemy in pieces.
- NASB “Your right hand, Lord, is majestic in power; Your right hand, Lord, destroys the enemy.
- NLT “Your right hand, O Lord, is glorious in power. Your right hand, O Lord, smashes the enemy.
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Quick answer
Yahweh's right hand is glorious in power and shatters the enemy.
Overview
The 'right hand' symbolizes God's active, mighty power exercised on behalf of His people. The repetition heightens the praise of His irresistible strength. The God who dashes His enemies in pieces is the same who upholds and saves the redeemed.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 17
- Ps 118:15–16Shouts of joy and salvation resound in the tents of the righteous: “The right hand of the LORD performs with valor!
- Isa 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?
- Ps 2:9You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”
- 1 Chr 29:11–12Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.
- Ps 60:5Respond and save us with Your right hand, that Your beloved may be delivered.
- Rev 2:27He will rule them with an iron scepter and shatter them like pottery—just as I have received authority from My Father.
- Matt 6:13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’
- Isa 52:10The LORD has bared His holy arm in the sight of all the nations; all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
- Ps 98:1A Psalm. Sing to the LORD a new song, for He has done wonders; His right hand and holy arm have gained Him the victory.
- Ps 74:11Why do You withdraw Your strong right hand? Stretch it out to destroy them!
- Ps 89:8–13O LORD God of Hosts, who is like You? O mighty LORD, Your faithfulness surrounds You.
- Ps 44:3For it was not by their sword that they took the land; their arm did not bring them victory. It was by Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your face, because You favored them.
- Ps 77:10So I said, “I am grieved that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”
- Ps 17:7Show the wonders of Your loving devotion, You who save by Your right hand those who seek refuge from their foes.
- Exod 15:11Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?
- Jer 13:14I will smash them against one another, fathers and sons alike, declares the LORD. I will allow no mercy or pity or compassion to keep Me from destroying them.’”
- Isa 30:14It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth or to skim the water from a cistern.”
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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