Still, you lord it over My people and do not allow them to go.
Parallel translations
- WEB as you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won’t let them go.
- KJV As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?
- NKJV As yet you exalt yourself against My people in that you will not let them go.
- NASB Still you exalt yourself against My people by not letting them go.
- NLT But you still lord it over my people and refuse to let them go.
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Quick answer
God charges Pharaoh with exalting himself against God's people. Pride against God lies at the root of his refusal.
Overview
Pharaoh's sin is named as self-exaltation, setting himself above God by oppressing Israel. This pride is the spiritual core of his hardness and the reason judgment continues. Scripture consistently identifies arrogance against God as inviting his opposition. The verse exposes that resisting God's people is resisting God himself.
Cross-references & the web
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- Acts 12:23Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
- Job 15:25–26For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty,
- Isa 26:11O LORD, Your hand is upraised, but they do not see it. They will see Your zeal for Your people and be put to shame. The fire set for Your enemies will consume them!
- Job 9:4God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?
- Isa 45:9Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?
- Isa 37:23–24Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
- 1 Cor 10:22Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
- Isa 37:29Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’
- Job 40:9Do you have an arm like God’s? Can you thunder with a voice like His?
- Isa 10:15Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!
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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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