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Jeremiah 21:5

Jeremiah 21:5
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.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And myself will fight against you,.... So far from being entreated to do for them according to his wondrous works in times past, as their friend; that he will set himself against them as their enemy;…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Jeremiah 21:1-7

Here is, I. A very humble decent message which king Zedekiah, when he was in distress, sent to Jeremiah the prophet. It is indeed charged upon this Zedekiah that he humbled not himself before Jeremiah…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

with an outstretched … arm a phrase of Deut. (Deu 4:34; Deu 5:15; Deu 26:8).