16 Bible Verses about God's Hands In Opposition

Remove your hand far from me and stop making me afraid with your terror.

Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, for the hand of God has struck me.

"Even today my complaint is still bitter; his hand is heavy despite my groaning.

For day and night you tormented me; you tried to destroy me in the intense heat of summer. (Selah)

For your arrows pierce me, and your hand presses me down.

Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death!

For the Lord's power will make this mountain secure. Moab will be trampled down where it stands, as a heap of straw is trampled down in a manure pile.

At that time the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble and fear because the Lord who commands armies brandishes his fist against them.

My hand will be against the prophets who see delusion and announce lying omens. They will not be included in the council of my people, nor be written in the registry of the house of Israel, nor enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the sovereign Lord.

I will remove the ruler from Ashdod, the one who holds the royal scepter from Ashkelon. I will strike Ekron with my hand; the rest of the Philistines will also die." The sovereign Lord has spoken!

Even if they could dig down into the netherworld, my hand would pull them up from there. Even if they could climb up to heaven, I would drag them down from there.

Now look, the hand of the Lord is against you, and you will be blind, unable to see the sun for a time!" Immediately mistiness and darkness came over him, and he went around seeking people to lead him by the hand.

Pharaoh will not listen to you. I will reach into Egypt and bring out my regiments, my people the Israelites, from the land of Egypt with great acts of judgment.

"I will display my majesty among the nations. All the nations will witness the judgment I have executed, and the power I have exhibited among them.

But he did not lay a hand on the leaders of the Israelites, so they saw God, and they ate and they drank.

It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.