For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
Parallel translations
- WEB For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I will help you.’
- 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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- Isa 41:10Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
- Ps 73:23Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.
- Ps 63:8My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.
- Ps 109:31For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.
- Isa 42:6I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
- 2 Tim 4:17Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
- Isa 45:1Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
- Deut 33:26–29There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.
- Isa 43:6I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;
- Isa 51:18There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.
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