Jeremiah 21:5

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

LXX2012 (British)

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 says the Lord; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war wherewith you⌃ fight against the Chaldeans that have besieged you from outside the wall, and I will gather them into the midst of this city.

6And I will strike all the dwellers in this city, both men and cattle, with grievous pestilence: and they shall die.

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Cross References

Exodus 9:15For now I will stretch forth my hand and strike you and kill your people, and you shall be consumed from off the earth.

Deuteronomy 4:34if God has assayed to go and take to himself a nation out of the midst of another nation with trial, and with signs, and with wonders, and with war, and with a mighty hand, and with a high arm, and with great sights, according to all the things which the Lord our God did in Egypt + 4:34 Gr. before you seeing. in your sight.

Isaiah 9:12even Syria from the rising of the sun, and the Greeks from the setting of the sun, who devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but still his hand is exalted.

Isaiah 9:21For Manasses shall eat the flesh of Ephraim, and Ephraim the flesh of Manasses; for they shall besiege Juda together. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is yet exalted.

Isaiah 63:10But they disobeyed, and provoked his Holy Spirit: so he turned to be an enemy, he himself contended against them.

Jeremiah 32:17So I took the cup out of the Lord's hand, and caused the nations to whom the Lord sent me to drink:

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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