Jeremiah 21:5

Then I myself will fight against you with a raised hand and a strong arm, and with wrath, fury, and great anger.

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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

4'Yahweh, God of Israel, says this: See, I am about to turn back the instruments of war that are in your hand, with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who are closing you in from outside the walls! For I will gather them in the middle of this city.

6For I will attack the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast. They will die in a severe plague.

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Cross References

Exodus 9:15By now I could have reached out with my hand and attacked you and your people with disease, and you would have been eradicated from the land.

Deuteronomy 4:34Or has God ever attempted to go and take for himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, as everything that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

Isaiah 9:12the Arameans on the east, and the Philistines on the west. They will devour Israel with open mouth. 1 In all these things, his anger does not subside; instead, his hand is still stretched out. 1

Isaiah 9:21Manasseh will devour Ephraim, and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together will attack Judah. 1 In all these things, his anger does not subside; instead, his hand is still stretched out.

Isaiah 63:10But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. 1 So he became their enemy and fought against them. 1

Jeremiah 32:17“Woe, Lord Yahweh! Look! You alone have made the heavens and the earth by your great strength and with your raised arm. Nothing you say is too difficult for you to do.

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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