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Exodus 9:17

Pride

15 For by this time I could have stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with a plague to wipe you off the earth.

16 But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power to you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.

Still, you lord it over My people and do not allow them to go.

18 Behold, at this time tomorrow I will rain down the worst hail that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded until now.

19 So give orders now to shelter your livestock and everything you have in the field. Every man or beast that remains in the field and is not brought inside will die when the hail comes down upon them.’”

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Still, you lord it over My people and do not allow them to go.
KJV
As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?
WEB
because you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won’t let them go.
ASV
As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?
DARBY
Dost thou still exalt thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?
BLB
Still you are exalting yourself over My people, so as not to send them out.
ÅB
Enda stiller du deg i veien for mitt folk og vil ikke la dem fare.
OTB
Du opphøyer deg fortsatt mot mitt folk ved ikke å la dem gå.
B1930
Ennu stiller du dig i veien for mitt folk og vil ikke la dem fare.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 1 Corinthians 10:22

    Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

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  • Isaiah 37:29

    Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’

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  • Isaiah 37:23–24

    Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!

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  • Job 9:4

    God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?

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  • Isaiah 45:9

    Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker— one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?

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  • Isaiah 10:15

    Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!

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  • Acts 12:23

    Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

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  • Job 40:9

    Do you have an arm like God’s? Can you thunder with a voice like His?

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