with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm; for his loving kindness endures forever:
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with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm; for his loving kindness endures forever:
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With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever.
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With a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, for His mercy endureth for ever.
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Passages linked to Psalms 136:12 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Jeremiah 32:21 and brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, with wonders, with a strong hand, with an outstretched arm, and with great terror;
- Deuteronomy 4:34 Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
- Exodus 6:6 Therefore tell the children of Israel, ‘I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments.
- Psalms 44:3 For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.
- Exodus 13:14 It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you shall tell him, ‘By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage.
- Exodus 15:6 Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.
- Deuteronomy 11:2-4 Know this day—for I don’t speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Yahweh your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm, his signs, and his works, which he did in the middle of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land; and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued you, and how Yahweh has destroyed them to this day;
- Isaiah 51:9-10 Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! 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? Isn’t it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain In doing such a work as was never done…
In doing such a work as was never done before, nor that any other could do.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 136:12 With a strong hand, and with a…
Psa 136:12 With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.
Ver. 12. And with a stretched out arm] A metaphor from soldiers’ exercising their arms, with utmost might and sleight.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain With a strong hand, and with a stretched out…
With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm,.... Exerting his power in a very open manner, and continuing it till he had effected the work; bringing his people out of Egypt, which is always ascribed to his great strength and mighty power, Exo 13:3. The redemption of the mystical Israel of God is by a mighty Redeemer, the Lord of hosts; who has redeemed them out of the hands of their enemies, that were stronger than they, and too strong for them: the conversion of them is by the power of the grace of God, even by the exceeding greatness of his power, and yet both acts of grace and mercy;
for his mercy endureth for ever; it was mercy put the Lord on stretching out his arm, and showing the strength of his right hand, in delivering Israel out of Egypt; and in his love and in his pity he redeemed them, Isa 63:9. It is owing to the tender mercies of our God, and is a performing the mercy promised to the fathers, that Christ, the dayspring from on high, was sent to visit and redeem us, Luk 1:68; and the regeneration, quickening, and conversion of sinners, are acts of mercy as well as of power, Eph 2:4.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain With a strong hand - A powerful hand; as…
With a strong hand - A powerful hand; as by a hand that could grasp and subdue all that opposed.
And with a stretched-out arm - As if the arm were stretched out to strike with the utmost force, or to exert its utmost power. See Exo 6:6; Deu 4:34; Deu 5:15; Deu 7:19; Deu 26:8; Jer 32:21.
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For his mercy ... - The exertion of his power in delivering his people was the expression of a mercy, the consequences of which are to endure forever, for the results of that deliverance will never cease in the history of the world; will never cease in heaven.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 12. O give thanks unto the Mighty One of…
12. O give thanks unto the Mighty One of Jacob (Psa_132:2; Psa_132:5), for &c.
12. From Deu_4:34, &c.; cp. Exo_6:1; Exo_6:6.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain With a strong hand, and with a stretched-out arm.…
With a strong hand, and with a stretched-out arm. (comp. Exo_6:6 Deu_7:8, 14 Neh_1:10, etc.) For his mercy, etc.
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 12. With a strong hand, and with a…
Ver. 12. With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm. Not only the matter but the manner of the Lord's mighty acts should be the cause of our praise. We ought to bless the Lord for adverbs as well as adjectives. In the Exodus the great power and glory of Jehovah were seen. He dashed in pieces the enemy with his right hand. He led forth his people in no mean or clandestine manner. "He brought them forth also with silver and gold, and there was not one feeble person in all their tribes." Egypt was glad when they departed. God worked with great display of force, and with exceeding majesty; he stretched out his arm like a workman intent on his labour, he lifted up his hand as one who is not ashamed to be seen. Even thus was it in the deliverance of each one of us from the thraldom of sin; "according to the working of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places."
For his mercy endureth for ever therefore his power is put forth for the rescue of his own. If one plague will not set them free there shall be ten; but free they shall all be at the appointed hour; not one Israelite shall remain under Pharaoh's power. God will not only use his hand but his armhis extraordinary power shall be put to the work sooner than his purpose of mercy shall fail.
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See, he lifts his strong right hand,
For his mercies steadfast stand.
Ver. 12. With a stretched out arm. The figure of an outstretched arm is appropriate, for we stretch out the arm when any great effort is required; so that this implies that God put forth an extraordinary and not a common or slight display of his power in redeeming his people. John Calvin.
Ver. 12. Displays of divine power in the history of the saints a reason for song.
Psalms 136:13*
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