Isaiah 51:9

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Summary

Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?

Put

O arm

As in

Judges 6:13

Nehemiah 9:7

Psalm 44:1

Art thou

Job 26:12

The dragon

Revelation 12:9

General references

Hebrews 11:29

Bible References

Put

Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion. Put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city. For henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.

And he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head. And he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

Be thou exalted, O LORD, in thy strength. We will sing and praise thy power.

Thou divided the sea by thy strength. Thou break the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.

LORD reigns! He is clothed with majesty. LORD is clothed with strength; he has girded himself with it. The world also is established that it cannot be moved.

saying, We thank thee, Lord God Almighty, who is and was, because thou have taken thy great power and reigned.

O arm

My righteousness is near. My salvation has gone forth, and my arms shall judge the peoples. The isles shall wait for me, and on my arm they shall trust.

Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of LORD been revealed?

And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor. Therefore his own arm brought salvation to him. And his righteousness, it upheld him.

LORD has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy grain to be food for thine enemies, and foreigners shall not drink thy new wine, for which thou have labored.

He did a mighty work by his arm. He scattered the proud in the mentality of their heart.

so that the word of Isaiah the prophet that he spoke might be fulfilled: Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of Lord been revealed?

As in

And Gideon said to him, Oh, my lord, if LORD is with us, then why has all this befallen us? And where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not LORD bring us up from Egypt? But now LORD has cast us of

Thou are LORD, the God who chose Abram, and brought him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham,

We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou did in their days, in the days of old.

Art thou

He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smites through Rahab.

The dragon

In that day LORD with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent, and he will kill the monster that is in the sea.

Thou divided the sea by thy strength. Thou break the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.

Speak, and say, Thus says lord LORD: Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lays in the midst of his rivers, that has said, My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.

Thou went forth for the salvation of thy people, for the salvation of thine anointed. Thou wound the head out of the house of the wicked man, laying bare the foundation even to the neck. Selah.

And the great dragon was cast out, the ancient serpent, called the Devil and Satan, he who leads the whole world astray. He was cast out to the earth, and his agents were cast out with him.

General references

I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

LORD has done great things for us. We are glad.

with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, for his loving kindness [is] forever,

As in the days of thy coming forth out of the land of Egypt I will show marvelous things to them.

By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land, of which the Egyptians, having taken an attempt, were drowned.