with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. His loving devotion endures forever.
Parallel translations
- WEB With a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm; for his loving kindness endures forever:
- KJV With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever.
- 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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Quick answer
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 32:21You brought Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and with great terror.
- Deut 4:34Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
- Exod 6:6Therefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.
- Ps 44:3For it was not by their sword that they took the land; their arm did not bring them victory. It was by Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your face, because You favored them.
- Isa 51:9–10Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?
- Exod 13:14In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
- Exod 15:6Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power; Your right hand, O LORD, has shattered the enemy.
- Deut 11:2–4Know this day that it is not your children who have known and seen the discipline of the LORD your God: His greatness, His mighty hand, and His outstretched arm;
- Acts 7:36He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.
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