Let them see that this is your doing, that you yourself have done it, Lord.
Parallel translations
- WEB that they may know that this is your hand; that you, Yahweh, have done it.
- KJV That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.
- BSB Let them know that this is Your hand, that You, O LORD, have done it.
- ESV Let them know that this is your hand; you, O LORD, have done it!
- NKJV That they may know that this is Your hand— That You, Lord, have done it!
- NASB And may they know that this is Your hand; You, Lord, have done it.
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Quick answer
David wants his deliverance to be so clear that all recognize it as God's doing. His rescue is meant to display the Lord's power.
Overview
David desires that salvation come visibly from God's hand, so that even his enemies acknowledge it. This reflects a God-centered aim in prayer: that the Lord be glorified through His acts of deliverance (Exodus 14:4). True rescue points beyond the rescued to the God who saves.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Job 37:7He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he has made may know it.
- 1 Kgs 18:36–37At the time of the evening offering, Elijah the prophet came near, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.
- Exod 8:19Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is God’s finger:” and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them; as Yahweh had spoken.
- Acts 4:16saying, “What shall we do to these men? Because indeed a notable miracle has been done through them, as can be plainly seen by all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we can’t deny it.
- Ps 126:2Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, “Yahweh has done great things for them.”
- Ps 17:13–14Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;
- Acts 2:32–36This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.
- 1 Sam 17:46–47Today, Yahweh will deliver you into my hand. I will strike you, and take your head from off you. I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines today to the birds of the sky, and to the wild animals of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,
- Ps 64:8–9Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.
- Num 16:28–30Moses said, “Hereby you shall know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works; for they are not from my own mind.
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