He has performed mighty deeds with His arm; He has scattered those who are proud in the thoughts of their hearts.
Parallel translations
- WEB He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
- KJV He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
- NKJV He has shown strength with His arm; He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
- NASB “He has done mighty deeds with His arm; He has scattered those who were proud in the thoughts of their hearts.
- NLT His mighty arm has done tremendous things! He has scattered the proud and haughty ones.
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God has shown mighty strength and scattered the proud. He overturns human arrogance.
Overview
Mary describes God's powerful acts in reversing the arrogant and self-exalting. The proud are scattered in the very schemes of their hearts. This theme of God humbling the haughty runs throughout Scripture and the gospel.
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- Ps 98:1A Psalm. Sing to the LORD a new song, for He has done wonders; His right hand and holy arm have gained Him the victory.
- Isa 52:10The LORD has bared His holy arm in the sight of all the nations; all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
- 1 Sam 2:3–4Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed.
- Isa 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?
- Rom 1:21For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
- Dan 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.
- Exod 15:6–7Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power; Your right hand, O LORD, has shattered the enemy.
- Isa 40:10Behold, the Lord GOD comes with might, and His arm establishes His rule. His reward is with Him, and His recompense accompanies Him.
- Isa 63:12who sent His glorious arm to lead them by the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to gain for Himself everlasting renown,
- Job 40:9–12Do you have an arm like God’s? Can you thunder with a voice like His?
- Jer 48:29–30We have heard of Moab’s pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his proud arrogance and haughtiness of heart.
- Exod 18:11Now I know that the LORD is greater than all other gods, for He did this when they treated Israel with arrogance.”
- Ps 89:13Mighty is Your arm; strong is Your hand. Your right hand is exalted.
- Ps 89:10You crushed Rahab like a carcass; You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.
- Ps 2:1–6Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
- Ps 118:15Shouts of joy and salvation resound in the tents of the righteous: “The right hand of the LORD performs with valor!
- 1 Sam 2:9–10He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.
- Isa 10:12–19So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes.
- Rev 18:8Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and grief and famine—and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”
- Exod 15:9–13The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’
- Deut 29:19–20because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.
- 2 Cor 10:5We tear down arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
- Gen 8:21When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.
- Gen 6:5Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
- Ps 63:5My soul is satisfied as with the richest of foods; with joyful lips my mouth will praise You.
- Ps 52:9I will praise You forever, because You have done it. I will wait on Your name—for it is good—in the presence of Your saints.
- 1 Pet 5:5Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
- Dan 5:25–31Now this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN.
- Deut 4:34Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
- Ps 33:10The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations; He thwarts the devices of the peoples.
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