Isaiah 51:9
Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah; awake, as in the days of old, [as in] the generations of passed ages. Is it not thou that hath hewn Rahab in pieces, [and] pierced the monster?
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Judges 6:13And Gideon said to him, Ah my Lord, if Jehovah be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where are all his miracles that our fathers told us of, saying, Did not Jehovah bring us up from Egypt? And now Jehovah hath cast us off, and given us into the hand of Midian.
Job 26:12He stirreth up the sea by his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through Rahab.
Psalms 21:13Be thou exalted, Jehovah, in thine own strength: we will sing and celebrate thy power.
Psalms 44:2Thou, by thy hand, didst dispossess the nations, but them thou didst plant; thou didst afflict the peoples, but them didst thou cause to spread out.
Psalms 44:24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, [and] forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
Psalms 74:13*Thou* didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst break the heads of the monsters on the waters:
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 51:5-9
Encouragement to the Disconsolate. ( b. c. 706.) 4 Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people. 5 My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust. 6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a… Read the whole commentary →