The people of Israel will stand up to their foes, and all their enemies will be wiped out.
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.
- BSB Your hand will be lifted over your foes, and all your enemies will 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.
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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 26:11Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.
- Ps 21:8Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you.
- Ps 10:12Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless.
- Isa 11:14They will fly down on the shoulders of the Philistines on the west. Together they will plunder the children of the east. They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon will obey them.
- Isa 14:2–4The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in Yahweh’s land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
- Isa 37:36Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
- Isa 1:25and I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin.
- Rev 20:8–9and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
- 1 Cor 15:25For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
- Luke 19:27But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’”
- Isa 33:10“Now I will arise,” says Yahweh; “Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.
- Rev 19:13–21He is clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood. His name is called “The Word of God.”
- Ps 106:26Therefore he swore to them that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,
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