Luke 1:51

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Summary

Luke 1:51

He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

Shewed

He hath scattered

The imagination

2 Corinthians 10:5

General references

Matthew 23:12

Bible References

Shewed

Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.

Or 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?

I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.

My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:

Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.

{A Psalm.} O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.

The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.

Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.

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?

The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?

Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.

He hath scattered

The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.

Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.

Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.

Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.

Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.

Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.

Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

The imagination

And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:

Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

General references

The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.

That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.

Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised.

And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.