Isaiah 51:9
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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?(A)
Psalm 74:13-14
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13 You divided the sea by your might;
you broke the heads of the dragons in the waters.(A)
14 You crushed the heads of Leviathan;
you gave him as food[a] for the creatures of the wilderness.
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- 74.14 Heb food for the people
Isaiah 52:1
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Let Zion Rejoice
52 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.(A)
Isaiah 27:1
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Israel’s Redemption
27 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.(A)
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Psalm 89:10
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10 You crushed Rahab like a carcass;
you scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.(A)
Isaiah 30:7
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7 For Egypt’s help is worthless and empty;
therefore I have called her,
“Rahab who sits still.”[a](A)
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- 30.7 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Ezekiel 29:3
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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.”(A)
Isaiah 51:17
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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.(A)
Psalm 44:1
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Psalm 44
National Lament and Prayer for Help
To the leader. Of the Korahites. A Maskil.
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:(A)
Job 26:12
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12 By his power he stilled the Sea;
by his understanding he struck down Rahab.(A)
Psalm 7:6
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6 Rise up, O Lord, in your anger;
lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
awake, O my God;[a] you have appointed a judgment.(A)
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- 7.6 Or awake for me
Habakkuk 3:13
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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.[a] Selah(A)
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- 3.13 Heb neck
Isaiah 62:8
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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,(A)
Isaiah 59:16-17
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16 He saw that there was no one
and was appalled that there was no one to intervene,
so his own arm brought him victory,
and his righteousness upheld him.(A)
17 He put on righteousness like a breastplate
and a helmet of salvation on his head;
he put on garments of vengeance for clothing
and wrapped himself in fury as in a mantle.(B)
Psalm 93:1
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Psalm 93
The Majesty of God’s Rule
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;(A)
Psalm 87:4
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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 44:23
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23 Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord?
Awake, do not cast us off forever!(A)
Nehemiah 9:7-15
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7 You are the Lord, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham;(A) 8 and you found his heart faithful before you and made with him a covenant to give to his descendants the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, and you have fulfilled your promise, for you are righteous.(B)
9 “And you saw the distress of our ancestors in Egypt and heard their cry at the Red Sea.[a](C) 10 You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land, for you knew that they acted insolently against our ancestors. You made a name for yourself that remains to this day.(D) 11 And you divided the sea before them, so that they passed through the sea on dry land, but you threw their pursuers into the depths like a stone into mighty waters.(E) 12 Moreover, you led them by day with a pillar of cloud and by night with a pillar of fire, to give them light on the way in which they should go.(F) 13 You came down also upon Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,(G) 14 and you made known your holy Sabbath to them and gave them commandments and statutes and a law through Moses your servant.(H) 15 For their hunger you gave them bread from heaven, and for their thirst you brought water for them out of the rock, and you told them to go in to possess the land that you swore to give them.(I)
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- 9.9 Or Sea of Reeds
Revelation 12:9
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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.(A)
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Revelation 11:17
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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.(A)
Luke 1:51
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51 He has shown strength with his arm;
he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.(A)
Habakkuk 2:19
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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.(A)
Isaiah 53:1
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53 Who has believed what we have heard?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?(A)
Isaiah 51:5
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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.(A)
Psalm 21:13
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13 Be exalted, O Lord, in your strength!
We will sing and praise your power.(A)
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