Luke 1:51
New International Version
He has performed mighty deeds with his arm; he has scattered those who are proud in their inmost thoughts.

New Living Translation
His mighty arm has done tremendous things! He has scattered the proud and haughty ones.

English Standard Version
He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts;

Berean Standard Bible
He has performed mighty deeds with His arm; He has scattered those who are proud in the thoughts of their hearts.

Berean Literal Bible
He has shown strength with His arm, He has scattered the proud in the thought of their heart.

King James Bible
He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

New King James Version
He has shown strength with His arm; He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

New American Standard Bible
“He has done mighty deeds with His arm; He has scattered those who were proud in the thoughts of their hearts.

NASB 1995
“He has done mighty deeds with His arm; He has scattered those who were proud in the thoughts of their heart.

NASB 1977
“He has done mighty deeds with His arm; He has scattered those who were proud in the thoughts of their heart.

Legacy Standard Bible
He has done a mighty deed with His arm; He has scattered those who were proud in the thoughts of their heart.

Amplified Bible
“He has done mighty deeds with His [powerful] arm; He has scattered those who were proud in the thoughts of their heart.

Christian Standard Bible
He has done a mighty deed with his arm; he has scattered the proud because of the thoughts of their hearts;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He has done a mighty deed with His arm; He has scattered the proud because of the thoughts of their hearts;

American Standard Version
He hath showed strength with his arm; He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their heart.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“He has wrought victory with his arm and he has scattered the proud with the opinion of their heart.”

Contemporary English Version
The Lord has used his powerful arm to scatter those who are proud.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He hath shewed might in his arm: he hath scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart.

English Revised Version
He hath shewed strength with his arm; He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their heart.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"He displayed his mighty power. He scattered those who think too highly of themselves.

Good News Translation
He has stretched out his mighty arm and scattered the proud with all their plans.

International Standard Version
He displayed his mighty power with his arm. He scattered people who were proud in mind and heart.

Literal Standard Version
He did powerfully with His arm, | He scattered abroad the proud in the thought of their heart,

Majority Standard Bible
He has performed mighty deeds with His arm; He has scattered those who are proud in the thoughts of their hearts.

New American Bible
He has shown might with his arm, dispersed the arrogant of mind and heart.

NET Bible
He has demonstrated power with his arm; he has scattered those whose pride wells up from the sheer arrogance of their hearts.

New Revised Standard Version
He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts.

New Heart English Bible
He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

Webster's Bible Translation
He hath shown strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

Weymouth New Testament
He has manifested His supreme strength. He has scattered those who were haughty in the thoughts of their hearts.

World English Bible
He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

Young's Literal Translation
He did powerfully with His arm, He scattered abroad the proud in the thought of their heart,

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Context
Mary's Song
50His mercy extends to those who fear Him, from generation to generation. 51He has performed mighty deeds with His arm; He has scattered those who are proud in the thoughts of their hearts. 52He has brought down rulers from their thrones, but has exalted the humble.…

Cross References
Genesis 11:8
So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

Exodus 18:11
Now I know that the LORD is greater than all other gods, for He did this when they treated Israel with arrogance."

Psalm 98:1
Sing to the LORD a new song, for He has done wonders; His right hand and holy arm have gained Him the victory.

Psalm 118:15
Shouts of joy and salvation resound in the tents of the righteous: "The right hand of the LORD performs with valor!


Treasury of Scripture

He has showed strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

shewed.

Exodus 15:6,7,12,13
Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy…

Deuteronomy 4:34
Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

Psalm 52:9
I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.

he hath scattered.

Exodus 15:9-11
The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them…

Exodus 18:11
Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.

1 Samuel 2:3,4,9,10
Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed…

the imagination.

Genesis 6:5
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Genesis 8:21
And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

Deuteronomy 29:19,20
And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: …

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Luke 1
1. The preface of Luke to his whole gospel.
5. The conception of John the Baptist;
26. and of Jesus.
39. The prophecy of Elisabeth and of Mary, concerning Jesus.
57. The nativity and circumcision of John.
67. The prophecy of Zachariah, both of Jesus,
76. and of John.














(51) He hath shewed strength.--Literally, He wrought strength. Here the parallelism with 1Samuel 2:3 becomes very close. Of whom the speaker thought as among the "proud," we cannot know. They may have been the potentates of the world in which she lived, Herod and the Emperor of Rome. They may have been the men of Jerusalem, who despised Galilee; or those of the other towns and villages of Galilee, who despised Nazareth; or, though less probably, those of Nazareth itself, who despised the carpenter and his betrothed.

Verses 51-53. - He hath showed strength with his arm; he hath soattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree. He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away. From adoration, Mary's hymn proceeds to celebrate the mighty results effected by the Divine pity. As so often in thee prophetic strains, the speaker or writer speaks or writes as though the future had become the past; so Mary here describes the Messianic reversal of man's conception of what is great and little, as though the unborn Babe had already lived and done his strange mighty work in the world. The "glorious arm" which, in old days, had wrought such mighty things for Israel, she recognized as belonging to the coming Deliverer (verse 51). His chosen instruments would be those of whom the world thought little, like herself. The proud and mighty would be put down; the men of low degree, and poor and humble, would be exalted. The hungry would be filled; and they who were rich only in this world's goods would have no share in the new kingdom - they would be sent empty away. How strangely had the virgin of Nazareth caught the thought, almost the very words, of the famous sermon her Divine Son, some thirty years later, preached on the mountain-side near Gennesaret!

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Greek
He has performed
Ἐποίησεν (Epoiēsen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 4160: (a) I make, manufacture, construct, (b) I do, act, cause. Apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary; to make or do.

mighty deeds
κράτος (kratos)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 2904: Dominion, strength, power; a mighty deed. Perhaps a primary word; vigor.

with
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

His
αὐτοῦ (autou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

arm;
βραχίονι (brachioni)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 1023: The arm, strength. Properly, comparative of brachus, but apparently in the sense of brasso; the arm, i.e. strength.

He has scattered
διεσκόρπισεν (dieskorpisen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1287: From dia and skorpizo; to dissipate, i.e. to rout or separate; specially, to winnow; figuratively, to squander.

[those who are] proud
ὑπερηφάνους (hyperēphanous)
Adjective - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 5244: Proud, arrogant, disdainful. From huper and phaino; appearing above others, i.e. haughty.

in [the] thoughts
διανοίᾳ (dianoia)
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1271: From dia and nous; deep thought, properly, the faculty, by implication, its exercise.

of their
αὐτῶν (autōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

hearts.
καρδίας (kardias)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 2588: Prolonged from a primary kar; the heart, i.e. the thoughts or feelings; also the middle.


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