For I am the LORD your God, who takes hold of your right hand and tells you: Do not fear, I will help you.
Parallel translations
- WEB For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I will help you.’
- KJV For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
- 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 41:10Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My right hand of righteousness.
- Ps 73:23Yet I am always with You; You hold my right hand.
- Ps 63:8My soul clings to You; Your right hand upholds me.
- Ps 109:31For He stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from the condemners of his soul.
- Isa 42:6“I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations,
- 2 Tim 4:17But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.
- Isa 45:1This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut:
- Deut 33:26–29“There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.
- Isa 43:6I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back!’ Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth—
- Isa 51:18Among all the sons she bore, there is no one to guide her; among all the sons she brought up, there is no one to take her hand.
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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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