As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?
Parallel translations
- WEB as you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won’t let them go.
- BSB Still, you lord it over My people and do not allow them to 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 12:23And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
- Job 15:25–26For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
- Isa 26:11LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
- Job 9:4He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
- Isa 45:9Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
- Isa 37:23–24Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
- 1 Cor 10:22Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
- Isa 37:29Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
- Job 40:9Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
- Isa 10:15Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no 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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