Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
Parallel translations
- WEB You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
- BSB You crushed Rahab like a carcass; You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.
- NKJV You have broken Rahab in pieces, as one who is slain; You have scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.
- NASB You Yourself crushed Rahab like one who is slain; You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.
- NLT You crushed the great sea monster. You scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
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God crushed Rahab and scattered His enemies with His mighty arm. He has decisively defeated all that opposes Him.
Overview
Rahab here is a poetic name for a chaos-monster, often associated with Egypt, whom God shattered. The image celebrates God's victory over His foes. It foreshadows the ultimate triumph of Christ, who through His death and resurrection defeated sin, death, and the powers of darkness.
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- Ps 87:4I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.
- Ps 144:6Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
- Ps 68:30Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.
- Isa 24:1Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
- Ps 78:43–72How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
- Ps 105:27–45They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
- Ps 59:11Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
- Exod 3:19–20And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand.
- Ps 68:1Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.
- Exod 7:1–15And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.
- Deut 4:34Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
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