Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.
- BSB Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power; Your right hand, O LORD, has shattered 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 118:15–16The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.
- Isa 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
- Ps 2:9Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
- 1 Chr 29:11–12Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.
- Ps 60:5That thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.
- Rev 2:27And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
- Matt 6:13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
- Isa 52:10The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
- Ps 98:1O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.
- Ps 74:11Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.
- Ps 89:8–13O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?
- Ps 44:3For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
- Ps 77:10And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.
- Ps 17:7Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.
- Exod 15:11Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
- Jer 13:14And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
- Isa 30:14And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
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