By your strong arm, you redeemed your people, the descendants of Jacob and Joseph. Interlude
Parallel translations
- WEB You have redeemed your people with your arm, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
- KJV Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
- BSB With power You redeemed Your people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah
- NKJV You have with Your arm redeemed Your people, The sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah
- NASB By Your power You have redeemed Your people, The sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah
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God redeemed His people with His arm, the descendants of Jacob and Joseph.
Overview
Asaph recalls the great redemption of the Exodus, accomplished by God's mighty arm. Naming Jacob and Joseph ties the deliverance to God's covenant with the patriarchs. This act of redemption becomes the pattern and pledge of God's saving power, fulfilled in the greater redemption Christ accomplishes for His people.
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Cross-references · 7
- Deut 9:29Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”
- 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:
- Isa 63:9In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
- Deut 9:26I prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance, that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
- Ps 74:2Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; Mount Zion, in which you have lived.
- Ps 136:11–12And brought out Israel from among them; for his loving kindness endures forever;
- Gen 48:3–20Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
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