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“Your right hand, O Lord, has become glorious in power; Your right hand, O Lord, has dashed the enemy in pieces.
Exodus 15:6 · New King James Version
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.
  • BSB Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power; Your right hand, O LORD, has shattered the enemy.
  • 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 tents of the righteous. “The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly.
  • Isa 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?
  • Ps 2:9You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
  • 1 Chr 29:11–12Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.
  • Ps 60:5So that your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer us.
  • Rev 2:27He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father:
  • Matt 6:13Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’
  • Isa 52:10Yahweh has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
  • Ps 98:1A Psalm. Sing to Yahweh a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand, and his holy arm, have worked salvation for him.
  • Ps 74:11Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it out of your pocket and consume them!
  • Ps 89:8–13Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you.
  • Ps 44:3For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.
  • Ps 77:10Then I thought, “I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High.”
  • Ps 17:7Show your marvelous loving kindness, you who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies.
  • Exod 15:11Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
  • Jer 13:14I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together,” says Yahweh: “I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.”’”
  • Isa 30:14He will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found among the broken piece a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”

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  • VideoBibleProject — Exodus videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — verse-by-verseDavid Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on ExodusMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

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  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

Christ at the center

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.

How Exodus 15:6 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

Original language

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