Psalm - 118:16



16 The right hand of Yahweh is exalted! The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly!"

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Explanation and meaning of Psalm 118:16.

Differing Translations

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The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.
The right hand of the Lord hath wrought strength: the right hand of the Lord hath exulted me: the right hand of the Lord hath wrought strength.
The right hand of Jehovah is exalted, The right hand of Jehovah is doing valiantly.
The right hand of the Lord is lifted up; the right hand of the Lord does works of power.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

The right hand of the Lord is exalted - Jehovah lifted up his right hand, and with it performed prodigies of power.

The right hand of the Lord is exalted,.... Lifted up, very eminent and conspicuous, easily to be observed in the instances before given, and become great and glorious in power; see Exodus 15:6. The power of God is superior to all enemies; and is beyond conception and expression; and is able to do for his people above all they are able to ask or think;
the right hand of the Lord doth valiantly: or "acts powerfully". This is repeated for the confirmation of it, and to show how much the righteous were affected with it, and how desirous they were of glorifying of it; "the right hand of the Lord", being three times mentioned, may have respect to the three divine Persons in the Godhead, whose right hand or power is the same: and as the right hand of the Father has done powerfully in the instances given, so the right hand of the Son has worked mightily in vanquishing all enemies, sin, Satan, death, and the world; in obtaining the salvation of his people, and in raising himself from the dead: and so the right hand of the Holy Spirit has wrought powerfully on Christ, on whom he rested as the Spirit of might, and through whom Christ offered himself to God, and by whom he was raised from the dead; and also in the conversion of sinners, and in helping, assisting, strengthening, and protecting the saints.

right hand . . . is exalted--His power greatly exerted.

Exalted - Hath appeared evidently, and wrought powerfully and gloriously.

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