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Jeremiah 32:17

Jeremiah 32:17
Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Thou showest lovingkindness unto thousands,.... Not to thousands of persons only, but to a thousand generations, even such that love, fear, and serve him; see Exo 20:6; this is very properly added,…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Jeremiah 32:16-25

We have here Jeremiah's prayer to God upon occasion of the discoveries God had made to him of his purposes concerning this nation, to pull it down, and in process of time to build it up again, which…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

thy stretched out arm Here, as in Jer 27:5, referring to creation. Elsewhere the expression has to do with Jehovah's acts of deliverance (e.g. Jer 32:32; Exo 6:6; Deu 4:34). Cp. the similar phrase…