“Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.”
Your right hand, Lord, was majestic in power. Your right hand, Lord, shattered the enemy. The right hand of God — the hand of authority, power, and favor in the ancient world — is praised in its majestic power. The word majestic — nedar — appears in verse 11 as well: who is like you, majestic in holiness? The holiness and the power are two aspects of the same divine majesty that the song is celebrating. Psalm 98:1 says the Lord has done marvelous things; his right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation. The right hand of God and the arm of God are the recurring metaphors for divine action in the Exodus tradition, picked up throughout the Psalms and prophets and reaching into the New Testament in Hebrews 1:3, where the Son is described as seated at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.
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