6909. And I will put forth My hand. That this signifies power from the Divine, is evident from the signification of “hand,” as being power (see n. 878, 3387, 4931-4937); and as Jehovah or the Lord says this of Himself, it denotes power from the Divine.
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Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a fieldbefore its crop has grown.