Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
Parallel translations
- WEB “Now I will arise,” says Yahweh; “Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.
- BSB “Now I will arise,” says the LORD. “Now I will lift Myself up. Now I will be exalted.
- NKJV “NowI will rise,” says the Lord; “Now I will be exalted, Now I will lift Myself up.
- NASB “Now I will arise,” says the Lord, “Now I will be exalted, now I will be lifted up.
- NLT But the Lord says: “Now I will stand up. Now I will show my power and might.
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Quick answer
God declares that now is the time he will rise up, act, and be exalted in delivering his people.
Overview
After describing the despair, Yahweh announces a decisive turning point: he will arise to judge the oppressor and rescue Judah. The threefold 'now' stresses that deliverance comes at God's chosen moment, not by human effort. God's self-exaltation in saving his people is a pattern fulfilled supremely at the cross and resurrection, where he is glorified in redeeming sinners.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 16
- Ps 12:5For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
- Ps 102:13–18Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
- Amos 6:1Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!
- Isa 30:17–18One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.
- Isa 42:13–14The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.
- Isa 59:16–17And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
- Ps 78:65Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
- Deut 32:36–43For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
- Exod 15:9–12The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
- Zeph 3:8Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
- Ps 7:6Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.
- Exod 14:18And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
- Isa 10:33Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.
- Ps 46:10Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
- Isa 10:16Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
- Isa 2:21To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
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Isaiah sees him most clearly: the virgin's son Immanuel, the child on David's throne, the shoot from Jesse, the light to the nations, and above all the Suffering Servant pierced for our transgressions (ch. 53).
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