Isaiah 51:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁹ Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Art thou not it that cut Rahab in pieces, that 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

He stirreth up the sea with his power, And by his understanding he smiteth through Rahab.

Job 9:13

God will not withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rahab do stoop under him

Psalm 21:13

Be thou exalted, O LORD, in thy strength: So will we sing and praise thy power.

Psalm 44:1

We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, What work thou didst in their days, in the days of old.

Psalm 44:2

Thou didst drive out the nations with thy hand, and plantedst them in; Thou didst afflict the peoples, and didst spread them abroad.

Psalm 44:23

Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise, cast us not off for ever.

Psalm 44:24

Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

Psalm 59:4

They run and prepare themselves without my fault: Awake thou to help me, and behold.

Psalm 7:6

Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, Lift up thyself against the rage of mine adversaries: And awake for me; thou hast commanded judgement.

Psalm 77:5

I have considered the days of old, The years of ancient times.

Psalm 78:65

Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, Like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

Psalm 87:4

I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon as among them that know me: Behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; This one was born there.

Psalm 89:10

Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; Thou hast scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength.

Psalm 89:11

The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: The world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.

Psalm 93:1

The LORD reigneth; he is apparelled with majesty; The LORD is apparelled, he hath girded himself with strength: The world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.

Exodus 6:6

Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am Jehovah, 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 a stretched out arm, and with great judgements:

Isaiah 27:1

In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

Isaiah 30:7

For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her Rahab that sitteth still.

Isaiah 51:17

Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.

Isaiah 51:5

My righteousness is near, my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the peoples; the isles shall wait for me, and on mine arm shall they trust.

Isaiah 52:1

Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.

Isaiah 52:10

The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

Isaiah 53:1

Who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the LORD been revealed?

Isaiah 62:8

The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and strangers shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:

Ezekiel 29:3

speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.

Micah 7:15

As in the days of thy coming forth out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvelous things.

Habakkuk 2:19

Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise! Shall this teach? Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.

Habakkuk 3:13

Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, For the salvation of thine anointed; Thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, Laying bare the foundation even unto the neck. Selah

Zechariah 10:11

And he shall pass through the sea of affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.

Zechariah 2:13

Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD: for he is waked up out of his holy habitation.

Luke 1:51

He hath shewed strength with his arm; He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their heart.

John 12:38

that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? And to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?

Acts 7:7

And the nation to which they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.

Deuteronomy 4:34

Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

Revelation 11:17

saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, which art and which wast; because thou hast taken thy great power, and didst reign.

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.

Judges 6:13

And 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 wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.