Exodus 9:17

17 You still set yourself against my people and will not let them go.

Exodus 9:17 in Other Translations

17 As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?

17 You are still exalting yourself against my people and will not let them go.

17 But you still lord it over my people and refuse to let them go.

17 You are still building yourself up at my people's expense. You are not letting them go.

17 As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?

17 You are still blocking my people from leaving.

17 You are still acting arrogantly against My people by not letting them go.

17 " ' "But you are still against my people. You will not let them go.

Exodus 9:17 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 9:17

As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt
not let them go?
] And so against God himself, disobeying his commands, despising his messengers, and slighting his miracles, and hardening his heart against him, and refusing to let Israel go, after all; thereby showing the most intolerable pride and insolence not only against the Lord's poor people, but against himself, for what is done to them he takes as done to himself; or "dost thou still tread upon my people?"

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 trample them under foot, and make an highway or causeway of them.
F5 (ymeb llwtom Kdwe) "adhuc tu calcas populum meum?" some in Drusius; so Jarchi.

Exodus 9:17 In-Context

15 For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with a plague that would have wiped you off the earth.

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

17 You still set yourself against my people and will not let them go.

18 Therefore, at this time tomorrow I will send the worst hailstorm that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded till now.

19 Give an order now to bring your livestock and everything you have in the field to a place of shelter, because the hail will fall on every person and animal that has not been brought in and is still out in the field, and they will die.’ ”