99 Bible Verses about God's Hand

He fills his hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark.

It stretched out what looked like a hand and grabbed me by the hair on my head. In these visions from God, the Spirit carried me between heaven and earth. He took me in vision to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the seat of the idol of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy, was located.

I will teach you about the power of God; the ways of the Almighty I will not conceal.

Arise, O Jehovah! Lift your hand, O God. Do not forget oppressed people!

Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it out of your pocket and consume them!

Awake, awake! Clothe yourself with strength, O arm of Jehovah. Awake, as in days gone by, as in generations of old. Was it not you who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced that monster through?

You have a strong arm! Your hand is mighty (power by Holy Spirit); your right hand is exalted.

O Jehovah, your hand is lifted high, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame. Let the fire reserved for your enemies consume them.

You make the path of life known to me. Complete joy is in your presence. It is pleasant to be at your right hand forever.

You have given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand supports me. Your gentleness (humility) (meekness) makes me great.

With him my hand will be established; my arm also will strengthen him.

I considered all this in my heart and declared that the righteous and their works are in the hand of God. No man knows if love or hatred awaits him in the future.

I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands. Your walls are constantly before me.

When you see it, your heart will rejoice and you will flourish like new grass. The power of Jehovah will be made known to his servants, but he will condemn his enemies.

Then the part of the hand was sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed.

It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand and led them out of Egypt. They were not faithful to the covenant I made with them, and so I paid no attention to them.

This is my purpose (plan) (advise) for the world, and my arm (extended power) is stretched out to punish the nations.

Stretch forth your hand from on high. Rescue me and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hand of aliens

The Egyptians are humans, not God. Their horses are flesh and blood, not spirit. Jehovah will stretch out his powerful hand (extend his power). The one who gives help will stumble. The one who receives help will fall. Both will die together.

So I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders that I will do in it's midst. After that he will let you go.

The Egyptians will know that I am Jehovah when I use my power against Egypt and bring the sons of Israel out of there.

You stretched out your right hand, and the earth swallowed our enemies.

Jehovah has stretched his hand over the sea to shake kingdoms. He has commanded that Canaan's fortifications be destroyed.

I will stretch out my hand (use my power) against them and destroy the land from the desert to Diblah. THEN THEY WILL KNOW THAT I AM JEHOVAH!'

Say this, 'the Lord Jehovah says: I am against you, Mount Seir! I will stretch out my hand (exert my power) against you and make you a desolation and a waste.

If a prophet is tricked into giving a prophecy, it is I, Jehovah, who tricked the prophet. I will use my power against you and destroy you from among my people Israel.

Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful to me. I will stretch out my hand (use my power) against it, cut off its food supply, send a famine to it, and destroy its people and animals.

You are Jehovah's people, but you made him terribly angry, and he struck you with his mighty arm. Mountains shook, and dead bodies covered the streets like garbage. Jehovah is still angry. He is ready to strike you again.

The Arameans from the east and the Philistines from the west have devoured Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger has not turned away. His hand (power) is still stretched out (extended).

That is why Jehovah did not rejoice in their young people, nor show compassion to their orphans and widows. Everyone was godless and an evildoer, and every mouth spoke wickedness (foolishness) (vileness). In all this his anger has not turned away. His hand is stretched out still (ready to apply his power).

Manasseh will feed on Ephraim, Ephraim will feed on Manasseh, and both will devour Judah. But even then Jehovah's anger will not be satisfied. His hand is still poised to unleash his power.

There is nothing left but to crouch among prisoners and to fall with those who are killed. Even after all this, his anger will not disappear. His hand is stretched out (he is still ready to use his power).

Their houses, their fields and their wives will be turned over to others. I will stretch out my hand (extend my power) against the inhabitants of the land, declares Jehovah.

You left me, declares Jehovah. You turned your back on me. So I will stretch out my hand against you (use my power against you) and destroy you. I am tired of showing compassion to you.

Jehovah of Hosts is determined to do this. He has stretched out his arm to punish, and no one can stop him.

All day long I held out my hands to an obstinate people, who walk in ways not good, pursuing their own imaginations (thoughts),

But to Israel he says: All day long I have stretched out my hands to a people who are disobedient and self-willed (obstinate). (Isaiah 65:1, 2)

As I looked, I saw a hand stretched out toward me. In it was a scroll.

I will use my power against Judah and against the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will destroy followers of Baal in this place. I will remove the names of the pagan (idolatrous) priests along with my priests.

He will stretch out his hand (exercise his power) against the north, and destroy Assyria. He will make Nineveh a desolation. It will be barren like the desert wilderness.

You extend your hand to heal and signs and wonders appear in the name of your holy servant Jesus.

Withdraw your hand far from me, and stop frightening me with your terrors.

Have pity on me, my friends! Have pity on me because God's hand has struck me down.

Even today my complaint is bitter rebellion. God's hand is heavy despite my groaning.

Day and night your hand lay heavily on me. My strength drained in the summer heat.

Your arrows have struck me. Your hand has struck me hard.

Remove the plague you laid upon me. My life is over because you apposed me with your hand.

Jehovah's power will be on this mountain. Moab will be trampled beneath him like straw that is trampled in a pile of manure.

A time is coming when the people of Egypt will be as timid as women. They will tremble in terror when they see that Jehovah of Hosts has stretched out his hand (extended His power) to punish them.

My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations. They will have no place in the council of my people. They will not be written down in the register of the house of Israel. And they will not enter the land of Israel, that you may know that I am the Lord Jehovah.

I will destroy the inhabitant of Ashdod. I will kill the king of Ashkelon (who holds the scepter). I will direct my power against Ekron. The remnant of the Philistines will perish, said the Sovereign Lord Jehovah.

Though they dig into the grave my hand will take them. Though they climb to heaven I will bring them down.

Look Jehovah's hand is on you. You will be blind and not see the sun for a season. Immediately there fell on him a mist and darkness. He went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.

Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will use my power to punish (lay my hand upon) Egypt severely. I will bring my people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt in organized family groups.

I will show my greatness among the nations. All the nations will see how I will turn my power against them to punish them.

Even though these leaders of Israel saw God, he did not punish them. So they ate and drank.

It is a dreadful (terrible) thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Remember that you were servants in the land of Egypt, and that Jehovah your God brought you out through a mighty act. Jehovah your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

You saw with your own eyes the terrible plagues, the miraculous signs, and the amazing things Jehovah did. He used his mighty hand and powerful arm to bring you out. He will do the same thing to all the people who frighten you.

Jehovah brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with great terror and with signs and wonders.

And now, O Jehovah our God, you brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and made a name for yourself that day. We have sinned! We have done wickedly.

You will answer your son: 'We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt, and Jehovah brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

You were chosen because Jehovah loved you and kept the oath he swore to your fathers. So he used his mighty hand to bring you out. He freed you from slavery under Pharaoh king of Egypt.

I prayed to Jehovah and said: 'O Jehovah our God, do not destroy your people for they are your inheritance. You have redeemed them through your greatness. You brought them out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

That all the people of the earth might know the hand of Jehovah is mighty: that you might reverence Jehovah your God forever.

With the tremendous force of your right arm, Jehovah, you crushed your enemies.

Now I know that Jehovah will save his anointed king. He will answer him from his holy heaven with mighty deeds of his powerful hand.

It was not with their swords that they took possession of the land. They did not gain victory with their own strength. It was your right hand, your arm (power), and the light of your presence that did it, because you were pleased with them.

Is there a limit to my power? Jehovah answered. You will soon see whether what I have said will happen or not!

The hand of Jehovah is not too weak to save or his ear too deaf to hear.

His brightness is like the sun. He has rays of power coming from his hand! There was protection in his power.

The hand (Spirit) of God was with them. A great number believed, and turned to the Lord.

The word of Jehovah (YHWH) spoke to Ezekiel the priest, son of Buzi. It was in Babylon by the Chebar River. The power of Jehovah came upon him.

The power of Jehovah came over me. He said: Get up, and go to the plain. I will speak to you there.

The hand of Jehovah was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of Jehovah and set me down in the middle of the valley. The valley was full of bones.

It was the tenth day of the month in the beginning of the twenty-fifth year of our captivity and fourteen years after Jerusalem was captured. At that time Jehovah's power came over me, and he brought me to Jerusalem.

On the fifth day of the sixth month in the sixth year, I was sitting in my home. Judah's older men were sitting in front of me. The power of the Lord Jehovah came over me.

The evening before the refugee arrived, the power of Jehovah came over me. On the morning the refugee arrived, Jehovah made me speak. So I spoke, and I was no longer quiet.

The hand of Jehovah was on Elijah. Jehovah gave special strength to Elijah and he ran ahead of Ahab until they came to Jezreel.

Now bring me a musician. As the musician played his harp, the power of Jehovah came on Elisha.

Jabez cried out to the God of Israel: Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain. And God granted his request.

Let your power rest on the man you have chosen, the son of man you strengthened for yourself.

David said: All this was written for me by Jehovah's hand. He made all the details of the plan clear to me.

All that heard them wondered in their heart, saying, What will this child be? For the hand of Jehovah was with him.

Ezra came from Babylon. He was a scribe (copyist) and an expert in the Law of Moses which Jehovah, the God of Israel, had given. The king was moved by Jehovah his God to give him whatever he requested.

He started his journey from Babylon on the first day of the first month. He arrived at Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth month, by the good help of his God.

He has given mercy to me before the king and his government and before all the king's great captains. I was made strong by the hand of Jehovah my God which was on me, and I got together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.

With the help of our God they got for us Ish-sechel, one of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah with his sons and brothers, eighteen;

Then we went away from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us. He gave us salvation from our enemies and those who were waiting to attack us on the way.

I need a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king's park, so that he may give me wood to make boards for the doors of the tower of the house, and for the wall of the town, and for the house which is to be mine. The king gave me this, for the hand of my God was on me.

Then I gave them an account of how the hand of my God was on me, helping me. I told them of the king's words he said to me. They said: Let us get to work on the building. So they made their hands strong for the good work.

The Spirit lifted me and took me away. I went away feeling bitter and angry. The strong power of Jehovah came over me.

I would not make request to the king for a band of armed men and horsemen to give us help against those who might attack us on the way. We said to the king: The hand (power) (protection) of our God is on his servants for good, but his power and his wrath are against all those who have turned away from him.

When my glory passes by, I will put you in a crevice in the cliff and cover you with my hand until I have passed by.

A hand touched me and set me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you at the proper time.