Isaiah 51:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord! Awake, as in days of old, the generations of long ago! Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the dragon?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ [Zion now cries to the Lord, the God of Israel] Awake, awake, put on strength and might, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in the ancient days, as in the generations of long ago. Was it not You Who cut Rahab [Egypt] in pieces, Who pierced the dragon [symbol of Egypt]? [Isa. 30:7.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah; awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Is it not thou that didst cut Rahab in pieces, that didst pierce the monster?

Common English Bible

⁹ Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of the LORD. Awake as in times past, generations long ago. Aren’t you the one who crushed Rahab, who pierced the dragon?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Rise up, Rise up! Clothe yourself in strength, O arm of the Lord! Rise up as in the days of antiquity, as in generations long past. Have you not struck the arrogant one and wounded the dragon?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ Arise, arise, put on strength, O thou arm of the Lord: arise as in the days of old, in the ancient generations. Hast not thou struck the proud one, and wounded the dragon?

Isaiah 51:9 Cross References

Job 26:12

By his power he stilled the Sea; by his understanding he struck down Rahab.

Job 9:13

“God will not turn back his anger; the helpers of Rahab bowed beneath him.

Psalm 21:13

Be exalted, O Lord, in your strength! We will sing and praise your power.

Psalm 44:1

We have heard with our ears, O God; our ancestors have told us what deeds you performed in their days, in the days of old:

Psalm 44:2

you with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free;

Psalm 44:23

Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Awake, do not cast us off forever!

Psalm 44:24

Why do you hide your face? Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?

Psalm 59:4

for no fault of mine, they run and make ready. Rouse yourself, come to my help and see!

Psalm 7:6

Rise up, O Lord, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake, O my God; you have appointed a judgment.

Psalm 77:5

I consider the days of old and remember the years of long ago.

Psalm 78:65

Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a warrior shouting because of wine.

Psalm 87:4

Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon; Philistia, too, and Tyre, with Cush— “This one was born there,” they say.

Psalm 89:10

You crushed Rahab like a carcass; you scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

Psalm 89:11

The heavens are yours; the earth also is yours; the world and all that is in it—you founded them.

Psalm 93:1

The Lord is king; he is robed in majesty; the Lord is robed; he is girded with strength. He has established the world; it shall never be moved;

Exodus 6:6

Say therefore to the Israelites: I am the Lord, and I will free you from the burdens of the Egyptians and deliver you from slavery to them. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment.

Isaiah 27:1

On that day the Lord with his cruel and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

Isaiah 30:7

For Egypt’s help is worthless and empty; therefore I have called her, “Rahab who sits still.”

Isaiah 51:17

Rouse yourself, rouse yourself! Stand up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath, who have drunk to the dregs the cup of staggering.

Isaiah 51:5

I will bring near my deliverance swiftly; my salvation has gone out, and my arms will rule the peoples; the coastlands wait for me, and for my arm they hope.

Isaiah 52:1

Awake; awake; put on your strength, O Zion! Put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city, for the uncircumcised and the unclean shall enter you no more.

Isaiah 52:10

The Lord has bared his holy arm before the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

Isaiah 53:1

Who has believed what we have heard? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

Isaiah 62:8

The Lord has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: I will not again give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners shall not drink the wine for which you have labored,

Ezekiel 29:3

speak and say: Thus says the Lord God: I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon sprawling in the midst of its channels, saying, “My Nile is my own; I made it for myself.”

Micah 7:15

As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt, show us marvelous things.

Habakkuk 2:19

Alas for you who say to the wood, “Wake up!” to silent stone, “Rouse yourself!” Can it teach? See, it is gold and silver plated, and there is no breath in it at all.

Habakkuk 3:13

You came forth to save your people, to save your anointed. You crushed the head of the wicked house, laying it bare from foundation to roof. Selah

Zechariah 10:11

They shall pass through the sea of distress, and the waves of the sea shall be struck down, and all the depths of the Nile dried up. The pride of Assyria shall be laid low, and the scepter of Egypt shall depart.

Zechariah 2:13

Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord, for he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.

Luke 1:51

He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

John 12:38

This was to fulfill the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah: “Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

Acts 7:7

‘But I will judge the people whom they serve,’ said God, ‘and after that they shall come out and worship me in this place.’

Deuteronomy 4:34

Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by terrifying displays of power, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

Revelation 11:17

singing, “We give you thanks, Lord God Almighty, who are and who were, for you have taken your great power and begun to reign.

Revelation 12:9

The great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Judges 6:13

Gideon answered him, “But sir, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our ancestors recounted to us, saying, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has cast us off and given us into the hand of Midian.”