Yahweh will send out the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule among your enemies.
Parallel translations
- KJV The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.
- BSB The LORD extends Your mighty scepter from Zion: “Rule in the midst of Your enemies.”
- NKJV The Lord shall send the rod of Your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of Your enemies!
- NASB The Lord will stretch out Your strong scepter from Zion, saying, “Rule in the midst of Your enemies.”
- NLT The Lord will extend your powerful kingdom from Jerusalem; you will rule over your enemies.
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Quick answer
God will extend the Messiah's powerful scepter from Zion so He rules in the midst of His enemies. The King reigns even now amid opposition.
Overview
The 'rod of strength' is the royal scepter, symbol of the Messiah's authority advancing from Zion. That He rules 'among your enemies' means His kingdom expands even before all foes are subdued, an apt picture of Christ's present reign through the gospel (1 Corinthians 15:25). His dominion is exercised in the midst of a hostile world.
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Cross-references · 20
- 2 Cor 10:4–5for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,
- Jer 48:17All you who are around him, bemoan him, and all you who know his name; say, ‘How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod!’
- Matt 28:18–20Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
- Ps 2:8–9Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
- Ps 45:5–6Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies.
- Ps 72:8He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth.
- Ezek 47:1He brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward; (for the forefront of the house was toward the east;) and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, on the south of the altar.
- Exod 8:5Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.’”
- Ezek 19:14Fire has gone out of the rods of its branches. It has devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a scepter to rule.’ This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.”
- 1 Th 2:13For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
- Ps 22:28–29For the kingdom is Yahweh’s. He is the ruler over the nations.
- Acts 2:34–37For David didn’t ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit by my right hand,
- 1 Pet 1:12To them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, they ministered these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.
- Rom 1:16For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
- Mic 4:2Many nations will go and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;
- 1 Cor 1:23–24but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,
- Isa 2:3Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For out of Zion the law shall go out, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.
- Dan 7:13–14I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
- Mic 7:14Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the middle of fertile pasture land, let them feed; in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
- Exod 7:19Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”
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