Jeremiah 21:5

And I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched yad (hand) and with a zero'a chazakah (strong arm), even in anger, and in chemah, and in ketzef gadol (great wrath).

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.

In Context

4Thus saith Hashem Elohei Yisroel; Hineni, I will turn back against you the weapons of milchamah (war) that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against Melech Bavel, and against the Kasdim (Chaldeans), which besiege you outside the chomah (wall), and I will assemble them inside this city.

6And I will strike down the inhabitants of this city, both ha'adam and habehemah; they shall die of dever gadol (great plague).

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Cross References

Exodus 9:15For now I will stretch out My Yad, that I may strike thee and thy people with dever; and thou shalt be cut off from ha'aretz.

Deuteronomy 4:34Or hath Elohim tried to go and take Him a nation from the midst of another nation, by massot (trials), by otot, by mofetim, by milchamah, by a yad chazakah, by an outstretched zero'a, by great terrors, according to all that Hashem Eloheicha did for you in Mitzrayim before your eyes?

Isaiah 9:12For HaAm turneth not unto Him that struck them, 1 neither do they seek Hashem Tzva'os. 1

Isaiah 63:10But they rebelled, 1 and grieved His Ruach Hakodesh; 1 therefore He turned against them as oyev (enemy), 1 and He fought against them. 1

Jeremiah 32:17Ah Adonoi Hashem! Hinei, Thou hast made the Shomayim and the Eretz by Thy koach hagadol and Thy outstretched zero'a, and there is nothing too difficult for Thee;

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 21:2-8

Zedekiah's Message to Jeremiah. ( b. c. 590.) 1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord , when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying, 2 Enquire, I pray thee, of the Lord for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that the Lord will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us. 3 Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah: 4 Thus saith the Lord God of Israel;… Read the whole commentary →

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