With a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm; for his loving kindness endures forever:
Parallel translations
- KJV With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever.
- BSB with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. His loving devotion endures forever.
- NKJV With a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, For His mercy endures forever;
- NASB With a strong hand and an outstretched arm, For His faithfulness is everlasting.
- NLT He acted with a strong hand and powerful arm. His faithful love endures forever.
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God redeemed Israel with a strong hand and outstretched arm, and His love endures forever.
Overview
The strong hand and outstretched arm are vivid images of God's powerful, personal intervention to save. He did not deliver Israel from a distance but acted mightily on their behalf. This same saving power is displayed supremely in the cross and resurrection of Christ.
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- Jer 32:21and brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror;
- Deut 4:34Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
- Exod 6:6Therefore tell the children of Israel, ‘I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments:
- Ps 44:3For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.
- Isa 51:9–10Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?
- Exod 13:14It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you shall tell him, ‘By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage.
- Exod 15:6Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.
- Deut 11:2–4Know this day: for I don’t speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Yahweh your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm,
- Acts 7:36This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
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