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

Your right hand, LORD, is glorious in power. Your right hand, LORD, dashes the enemy in pieces.

Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it. I will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence of your holy ones.

My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,

You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.

Sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things. His right hand, and his holy arm, have worked salvation for him.

The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. "The right hand of the LORD does valiantly.

Behold, the Lord GOD will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.

Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of the LORD; awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn't it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?

The LORD has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

who caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?

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

He hath scattered

The enemy said, 'I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the spoil. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.'

Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods because of the thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them."

"Talk no more so exceeding proudly. Do not let arrogance come out of your mouth, For the LORD is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

Therefore it will happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his haughty looks.

We have heard of the pride of Moab. He is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble."

This is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, towards one another; for "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

The imagination

The LORD 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.

The LORD smelled the pleasant aroma. The LORD said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.

and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, "I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry."

Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but their thinking became nonsense, and their foolish heart was darkened.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity 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."

who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth like meaningless.

"For, behold, I have made you small among the nations, and despised among men.

Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised.

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.