This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
Parallel translations
- KJV This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
- BSB This is the plan devised for the whole earth, and this is the hand stretched out over all the nations.
- NKJV This is the purpose that is purposed against the whole earth, And this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
- NASB This is the plan devised against the entire earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out against all the nations.
- NLT I have a plan for the whole earth, a hand of judgment upon all the nations.
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Quick answer
This is God's settled plan for the whole earth, his hand stretched out over all nations. His judgment reaches far beyond a single people.
Overview
Isaiah declares that God's dealings with Assyria are part of a universal purpose embracing all nations. The 'outstretched hand' signifies his active sovereignty over world history. This reminds us that the Lord rules not only Israel but every nation according to his determined plan.
Cross-references & the web
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- Isa 23:9Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
- Isa 5:25Therefore Yahweh’s anger burns against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them, and has struck them. The mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the middle of the streets. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.
- Exod 15:12You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them.
- Zeph 3:6–8I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.
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