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 your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; for there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.

He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head; he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and wrapped himself in zeal as a cloak.

Be exalted, O LORD, in your strength! We will sing and praise your power.

You divided the sea by your might; you broke the heads of the sea monsters on the waters.

The LORD reigns; he is robed in majesty; the LORD is robed; he has put on strength as his belt. Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.

saying, "We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, who is and who was, for you have taken your great power and begun to reign.

O arm

My righteousness draws near, my salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples; the coastlands hope for me, and for my arm they wait.

Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no one to intercede; then his own arm brought him salvation, and his righteousness upheld him.

The LORD has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: "I will not again give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners shall not drink your wine for which you have labored;

He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts;

so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: "Lord, who has believed what he heard from us, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"

As in

And Gideon said to him, "Please, sir, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our fathers recounted to us, saying, 'Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?' But now the LORD has forsaken us and given us into the hand of Midian."

You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.

O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, what deeds you performed in their days, in the days of old:

Art thou

By his power he stilled the sea; by his understanding he shattered Rahab.

The dragon

In that day the LORD with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.

You divided the sea by your might; you broke the heads of the sea monsters on the waters.

speak, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his streams, that says, 'My Nile is my own; I made it for myself.'

You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of the wicked, laying him bare from thigh to neck. Selah

And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world--he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

General references

I consider the days of old, the years long ago.

The LORD has done great things for us; we are glad.

with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, for his steadfast love endures forever;

As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things.

By faith the people crossed the Red Sea as on dry land, but the Egyptians, when they attempted to do the same, were drowned.