Jeremiah 32:21

21 By means of miracles and wonders that terrified our enemies, you used your power and might to bring your people Israel out of Egypt.

Jeremiah 32:21 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 32:21

And hast brought forth thy people Israel of the land of
Egypt
As he promised Abraham, some hundreds of years before, that they should come out from thence; and where they had been as bondsmen, though they were the Lord's peculiar people, whom he had chose for himself above all people, and therefore he brought them out of their state of bondage; and this was his own doing, they could not deliver themselves; the enemy would not let them go till he was obliged to it by the superior power of God: with signs and with wonders;
which he wrought for them at the time of their deliverance, slaying the firstborn; and at the Red sea, and in the wilderness, after he brought them out of Egypt, and before their settlement in the laud of Canaan; and so these may be considered as distinct from the signs and wonders in the land of Egypt before mentioned: and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm;
with great power, and so delivered the Israelites from them that were stronger than they; with a mighty hand, that protected his people; and with a long arm, that reached their enemies, and destroyed them: and with great terror;
with great reverence in the Israelites, who saw the power and majesty of God; and with great terror to Pharaoh and his host, when they saw the waters return and overwhelm them; and to all the nations round about, when they heard of it; see ( Deuteronomy 4:34 ) . The Targum is,

``with great vision;''
so a spectacle, as the Syriac version; openly, before the eyes of all.

Jeremiah 32:21 In-Context

19 You make wise plans and do mighty things; you see everything that people do, and you reward them according to their actions.
20 Long ago you performed miracles and wonders in Egypt, and you have continued to perform them to this day, both in Israel and among all the other nations, so that you are now known everywhere.
21 By means of miracles and wonders that terrified our enemies, you used your power and might to bring your people Israel out of Egypt.
22 You gave them this rich and fertile land, as you had promised their ancestors.
23 But when they came into this land and took possession of it, they did not obey your commands or live according to your teaching; they did nothing that you had ordered them to do. And so you brought all this destruction on them.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.