Isaiah 51:10

"Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of the LORD! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?"

Key Reflection

This passage calls for God's intervention and reminds Him of His past mighty acts, symbolizing that He can once again rescue His people as he did in ancient times. The reference to cutting Rahab and piercing the monster (likely symbolic of Egypt) underscores God’s power to bring about deliverance through divine strength.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Art thou not it -Art thou not still the same? The ground of the appeal is, that the same arm that dried up the sea, and made a path for the Jewish people, was still able to interpose and rescue them. Which hath dried the sea -The Red Sea when the children of Israel passed overExodus 14:21. This is the common illustration to which the Hebrew prophets and poets appeal, when they wish to refer to the interposition of God in favor of their nation (comparePsalms 105:0; see the notes atIsaiah 43:16). For the ransomed to pass over -Those who had been ransomed from Egypt.

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