For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I will help you.’
Parallel translations
- KJV For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
- BSB For I am the LORD your God, who takes hold of your right hand and tells you: Do not fear, I will help you.
- NKJV For I, the Lord your God, will hold your right hand, Saying to you, ‘Fear not, I will help you.’
- NASB “For I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand, Who says to you, ‘Do not fear, I will help you.’
- NLT For I hold you by your right hand— I, the Lord your God. And I say to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I am here to help you.
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Quick answer
God personally holds His people's right hand and tells them not to fear, for He will help them.
Overview
The Lord pictures Himself grasping Israel's hand like a parent steadying a child, repeating His pledge of help. This intimate image conveys both His power and His nearness. Such assurance flows from the covenant relationship and foreshadows the help God supplies through Christ.
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Cross-references · 10
- Isa 41:10Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
- Ps 73:23Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.
- Ps 63:8My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.
- Ps 109:31For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.
- Isa 42:6“I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations;
- 2 Tim 4:17But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
- Isa 45:1Yahweh says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:
- Deut 33:26–29“There is no one like God, Jeshurun, who rides on the heavens for your help, in his excellency on the skies.
- Isa 43:6I will tell the north, ‘Give them up!’ and tell the south, ‘Don’t hold them back! Bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth —
- Isa 51:18There is no one to guide her among all the sons to whom she has given birth; and there is no one who takes her by the hand among all the sons who she has brought up.
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