Your hand will be lifted over your foes, and all your enemies will be cut off.
Parallel translations
- WEB Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, and let all of your enemies be cut off.
- KJV Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.
- NKJV Your hand shall be lifted against your adversaries, And all your enemies shall be cut off.
- NASB Your hand will be lifted up against your adversaries, And all your enemies will be eliminated.
- NLT The people of Israel will stand up to their foes, and all their enemies will be wiped out.
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Quick answer
The prophecy calls for God's people to triumph over their adversaries, who will be cut off. It declares the defeat of all who oppose them.
Overview
The lifting up of the hand signifies victory, and the enemies' being 'cut off' assures their downfall. This confidence rests not in human might but in God's promise to establish His people. It points to the ultimate vindication of God's kingdom over every hostile power.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Isa 26:11O LORD, Your hand is upraised, but they do not see it. They will see Your zeal for Your people and be put to shame. The fire set for Your enemies will consume them!
- Ps 21:8Your hand will apprehend all Your enemies; Your right hand will seize those who hate You.
- Ps 10:12Arise, O LORD! Lift up Your hand, O God! Do not forget the helpless.
- Isa 11:14They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines to the west; together they will plunder the sons of the east. They will lay their hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.
- Isa 14:2–4The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
- Isa 37:36Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
- Isa 1:25I will turn My hand against you; I will thoroughly purge your dross; I will remove all your impurities.
- Rev 20:8–9and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—to assemble them for battle. Their number is like the sand of the seashore.
- 1 Cor 15:25For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet.
- Luke 19:27And these enemies of mine who were unwilling for me to rule over them, bring them here and slay them in front of me.’”
- Isa 33:10“Now I will arise,” says the LORD. “Now I will lift Myself up. Now I will be exalted.
- Rev 19:13–21He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and His name is The Word of God.
- Ps 106:26So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,
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