You brought Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and with great terror.
Parallel translations
- WEB and brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror;
- KJV And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror;
- NKJV You have brought Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and with great terror;
- NASB You brought Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and with wonders, and with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and with great terror;
- NLT “You brought Israel out of Egypt with mighty signs and wonders, with a strong hand and powerful arm, and with overwhelming terror.
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Quick answer
God brought Israel out of Egypt with signs, wonders, a strong hand, and great terror. The exodus is the foundational display of His redeeming power.
Overview
Jeremiah rehearses the exodus as the paradigm of God's saving might, delivering His people with overwhelming power against their oppressors. This historical redemption assures him that God remains able to save. The exodus pattern of deliverance from bondage points forward to Christ's redemption, freeing His people from the greater bondage of sin (Col. 1:13-14).
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- Exod 6:6Therefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.
- Deut 26:8Then the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror, signs, and wonders.
- Ps 89:8–10O LORD God of Hosts, who is like You? O mighty LORD, Your faithfulness surrounds You.
- Exod 6:1But the LORD said to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh, for because of My mighty hand he will let the people go; because of My strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”
- Exod 13:14In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
- 1 Kgs 8:42for they will hear of Your great name and mighty hand and outstretched arm—when he comes and prays toward this temple,
- Exod 13:9It shall be a sign for you on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that the Law of the LORD is to be on your lips. For with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.
- Ps 136:11–12and brought Israel out from among them His loving devotion endures forever.
- Deut 4:34Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
- 1 Chr 17:21And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself? You made a name for Yourself through great and awesome wonders by driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed from Egypt.
- Ps 105:43He brought forth His people with rejoicing, His chosen with shouts of joy.
- Ps 105:37He brought Israel out with silver and gold, and none among His tribes stumbled.
- Ps 106:8–11Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.
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