Isaiah 51:9
Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Are you not it that has cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
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Judges 6:13And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD has forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.
Job 26:12He divides the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through the proud.
Psalms 21:13Be you exalted, LORD, in yours own strength: so will we sing and praise your power.
Psalms 44:2How you did drive out the heathen with your hand, and planted them; how you did afflict the people, and cast them out.
Psalms 44:24Wherefore hide you your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
Psalms 74:13You did divide the sea by your strength: you brake the heads of the dragons in 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 →