'Hand' in the Bible

the root Your right hand has planted,the shoot that You made strong for Yourself.

Let Your hand be with the man at Your right hand,with the son of manYou have made strong for Yourself.

I would quickly subdue their enemiesand turn My hand against their foes.”

Rescue the poor and needy;save them from the power of the wicked.”

You have a mighty arm;Your hand is powerful;Your right hand is lifted high.

My hand will always be with him,and My arm will strengthen him.

I will extend his power to the seaand his right hand to the rivers.

You have lifted high the right hand of his foes;You have made all his enemies rejoice.

Though a thousand fall at your sideand ten thousand at your right hand,the pestilence will not reach you.

The depths of the earth are in His hand,and the mountain peaks are His.

You who love the Lord, hate evil!He protects the lives of His godly ones;He rescues them from the power of the wicked.

A psalm.Sing a new song to the Lord,for He has performed wonders;His right hand and holy armhave won Him victory.

When You give it to them,they gather it;when You open Your hand,they are satisfied with good things.

He saved them from the hand of the adversary;He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

So He raised His hand against them with an oaththat He would make them fall in the desert

Let the redeemed of the Lord proclaimthat He has redeemed them from the hand of the foe

Save with Your right hand and answer meso that those You love may be rescued.

Set a wicked person over him;let an accuser stand at his right hand.

so they may know that this is Your handand that You, Lord, have done it.

For He stands at the right hand of the needyto save him from those who would condemn him.

A Davidic psalm.This is the declaration of the Lordto my Lord:“Sit at My right handuntil I make Your enemies Your footstool.”

The Lord is at Your right hand;He will crush kings on the day of His anger.

There are shouts of joy and victoryin the tents of the righteous:“The Lord’s right hand performs valiantly!

The Lord’s right hand is raised.The Lord’s right hand performs valiantly!”

May Your hand be ready to help me,for I have chosen Your precepts.

Like a servant’s eyes on his master’s hand,like a servant girl’s eyes on her mistress’s hand,so our eyes are on the Lord our Goduntil He shows us favor.

Like arrows in the hand of a warriorare the sons born in one’s youth.

with a strong hand and outstretched arm.        His love is eternal.

If I forget you, Jerusalem,may my right hand forget its skill.

If I walk into the thick of danger,You will preserve my lifefrom the anger of my enemies.You will extend Your hand;Your right hand will save me.

You have encircled me;You have placed Your hand on me.

even there Your hand will lead me;Your right hand will hold on to me.

You open Your handand satisfy the desire of every living thing.

Since I called out and you refused,extended my hand and no one paid attention,

Long life is in her right hand;in her left, riches and honor.

The diligent hand will rule,but laziness will lead to forced labor.

Why does a fool have money in his handwith no intention of buying wisdom?

The slacker buries his hand in the bowl;he doesn’t even bring it back to his mouth.

A king’s heart is like streams of water in the Lord’s hand:He directs it wherever He chooses.

The one who sends a message by a fool’s handcuts off his own feet and drinks violence.

A proverb in the mouth of a foolis like a stick with thorns,brandished by the hand of a drunkard.

The slacker buries his hand in the bowl;he is too weary to bring it to his mouth.

The one who controls her controls the windand grasps oil with his right hand.

If you have been foolish by exalting yourselfor if you’ve been scheming,put your hand over your mouth.

There is nothing better for man than to eat, drink, and enjoy his work. I have seen that even this is from God’s hand,

It is good that you grasp the one and do not let the other slip from your hand. For the one who fears God will end up with both of them.

In the morning sow your seed,and at evening do not let your hand rest,because you don’t know which will succeed,whether one or the other,or if both of them will be equally good.

His left hand is under my head,and his right arm embraces me.

My love thrust his hand through the opening,and my feelings were stirred for him.

His left hand is under my head,and his right arm embraces me.

I will turn My hand against youand will burn away your dross completely;I will remove all your impurities.

Therefore the Lord’s anger burns against His people.He raised His hand against them and struck them;the mountains quaked,and their corpses were like garbage in the streets.In all this, His anger is not removed,and His hand is still raised to strike.

Then one of the seraphim flew to me, and in his hand was a glowing coal that he had taken from the altar with tongs.

Aram from the east and Philistia from the westhave consumed Israel with open mouths.In all this, His anger is not removed,and His hand is still raised to strike.

Therefore the Lord does not rejoiceover Israel’s young menand has no compassionon its fatherless and widows,for everyone is a godless evildoer,and every mouth speaks folly.In all this, His anger is not removed,and His hand is still raised to strike.

Manasseh is with Ephraim,and Ephraim with Manasseh;together, both are against Judah.In all this, His anger is not removed,and His hand is still raised to strike. >

There will be nothing to doexcept crouch among the prisonersor fall among the slain.In all this, His anger is not removed,and His hand is still raised to strike.

As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms,whose idols exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria,

My hand has reached out, as if into a nest,to seize the wealth of the nations.Like one gathering abandoned eggs,I gathered the whole earth.No wing fluttered;no beak opened or chirped.

An infant will play beside the cobra’s pit,and a toddler will put his hand into a snake’s den.

On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover—from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the coasts and islands of the west—the remnant of His people who survive.

The Lord will divide the Gulf of Suez.He will wave His hand over the Euphrateswith His mighty windand will split it into seven streams,letting people walk through on foot.

Lift up a banner on a barren mountain.Call out to them.Wave your hand, and they will gothrough the gates of the nobles.

This is the plan preparedfor the whole earth,and this is the hand stretched outagainst all the nations.

The Lord of Hosts Himself has planned it;therefore, who can stand in its way?It is His hand that is outstretched,so who can turn it back?

On that day Egypt will be like women. She will tremble with fear because of the threatening hand of the Lord of Hosts when He raises it against her.

I will clothe him with your robe and tie your sash around him. I will put your authority into his hand, and he will be like a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the House of Judah.

He stretched out His hand over the sea;He made kingdoms tremble.The Lord has commandedthat the Canaanite fortresses be destroyed.

Lord, Your hand is lifted up to take action,but they do not see it.They will see Your zeal for Your people,and they will be put to shame.The fire for Your adversaries will consume them!

Look, the Lord has a strong and mighty one—like a devastating hail storm,like a storm with strong flooding waters.He will bring it across the land with His hand.

The fading flower of his beautiful splendor,which is on the summit above the rich valley,will be like a ripe fig before the summer harvest.Whoever sees it will swallow itwhile it is still in his hand.

Egyptians are men, not God;their horses are flesh, not spirit.When the Lord raises His hand to strike,the helper will stumbleand the one who is helped will fall;both will perish together.

The one who lives righteouslyand speaks rightly,who refuses gain from extortion,whose hand never takes a bribe,who stops his ears from listening to murderous plotsand shuts his eyes to avoid endorsing evil—

He has ordained a lot for them;His hand allotted their portion with a measuring line.They will possess it forever;they will dwell in it from generation to generation.

Look, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will enter and pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. This is how Pharaoh king of Egypt is to all who trust in him.

Beware that Hezekiah does not mislead you by saying, ‘The Lord will deliver us.’ Has any one of the gods of the nations delivered his land from the power of the king of Assyria?

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my power?

Who among all the gods of these lands ever delivered his land from my power? So will the Lord deliver Jerusalem.”

Now, Lord our God, save us from his power so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are the Lord—You alone.

And I will deliver you and this city from the power of the king of Assyria; I will defend this city.

“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,and announce to herthat her time of forced labor is over,her iniquity has been pardoned,and she has received from the Lord’s handdouble for all her sins.”

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his handor marked off the heavens with the span of his hand?Who has gathered the dust of the earth in a measureor weighed the mountains in a balanceand the hills in the scales?

Do not fear, for I am with you;do not be afraid, for I am your God.I will strengthen you; I will help you;I will hold on to you with My righteous right hand.

For I, Yahweh your God,hold your right handand say to you: Do not fear,I will help you.

so that all may see and know,consider and understand,that the hand of the Lord has done this,the Holy One of Israel has created it.

“I, Yahweh, have called Youfor a righteous purpose,and I will hold You by Your hand.I will keep You and appoint Youto be a covenant for the peopleand a light to the nations,

Also, from today on I am He alone,and none can deliver from My hand.I act, and who can reverse it?”

This one will say, ‘I am the Lord’s’;another will call himself by the name of Jacob;still another will write on his hand, ‘The Lord’s,’and name himself by the name of Israel.”

He feeds on ashes.His deceived mind has led him astray,and he cannot deliver himself,or say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”

The Lord says this to Cyrus, His anointed,whose right hand I have graspedto subdue nations before him,to disarm kings,to open the doors before himand the gates will not be shut:

My own hand founded the earth,and My right hand spread out the heavens;when I summoned them,they stood up together.

He made my words like a sharp sword;He hid me in the shadow of His hand.He made me like a sharpened arrow;He hid me in His quiver.

This is what the Lord God says:Look, I will lift up My hand to the nations,and raise My banner to the peoples.They will bring your sons in their arms,and your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.

Why was no one there when I came?Why was there no one to answer when I called?Is My hand too short to redeem?Or do I have no power to deliver?Look, I dry up the sea by My rebuke;I turn the rivers into a wilderness;their fish rot because of lack of waterand die of thirst.

Look, all you who kindle a fire,who encircle yourselves with firebrands;walk in the light of your fireand in the firebrands you have lit!This is what you’ll get from My hand:you will lie down in a place of torment.

I have put My words in your mouth,and covered you in the shadow of My hand,in order to plant the heavens,to found the earth,and to say to Zion, “You are My people.”

Wake yourself, wake yourself up!Stand up, Jerusalem,you who have drunk the cup of His furyfrom the hand of the Lord;you who have drunk the goblet to the dregs—the cup that causes people to stagger.

There is no one to guide heramong all the children she has raised;there is no one to take hold of her handamong all the offspring she has brought up.

This is what your Lord says—Yahweh, even your God,who defends His people—“Look, I have removedthe cup of staggering from your hand;that goblet, the cup of My fury.You will never drink it again.

Yet the Lord was pleased to crush Him severely.When You make Him a restitution offering,He will see His seed, He will prolong His days,and by His hand, the Lord’s pleasure will be accomplished.