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Isaiah 51:9
New Catholic Bible
Isaiah 51:9
New Catholic Bible
9 Awake, awake, O arm of the Lord!
Clothe yourself in strength.
Awake as in the days of old,
in ages long past.
Was it not you who hacked Rahab[a] to pieces
and pierced the dragon through?
Footnotes
- Isaiah 51:9 Rahab is a personification of Egypt (see Isa 30:7; Pss 87:4; 89:10). The dragon is the crocodile, the emblem of Egypt—allusion to the ten plagues.
