Jeremías 16:21

21 Por tanto, he aquí, les enseñaré esta vez, les enseñaré mi mano y mi fortaleza, y sabrán que mi Nombre es el SEÑOR

Jeremías 16:21 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 16:21

Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know
Or, "at this time", as the Targum; when the Gentiles shall be convinced of the idolatry they have been brought up in, and of the vanity and falsehood of their idols; they shall be made to know the true God, God in Christ, Christ himself, whom to know is life eternal, and to know the way of life and salvation by him; and all this through the ministry of the Gospel that should be brought among them, the Spirit of God accompanying it; by means of which they should come to Christ from the ends of the earth, before predicted. I will cause them to know my hand and my might;
to experience the power and efficacy of his grace in conversion; quickening their dead souls, softening their hard hearts, taking away the stony heart, and giving a heart of flesh; and making them willing in the day of his power to be saved by Christ, and to serve him; to relinquish their idols, and turn to and worship the living God in spirit and in truth: though most understand this not as a promise of grace to the Gentiles, but as a threatening of punishment to the idolatrous Jews; that because of their idolatry they should once for all, or by this one and grievous calamity, captivity in Babylon, be made to know what they could not be brought to know by all the instructions and warnings of the prophets; they should now feel the weight of the Lord's hand, the lighting down of his arm with the indignation of his wrath; and so the Targum,

``I will show them my vengeance and the stroke of my power.''

And they shall know that my name is the Lord;
the Jehovah, the self-existent Being, the Being of beings, the everlasting and unchangeable I AM; who is able to make good his promises, or perform his threatenings; a name incommunicable to creatures, which do not belong to the idols of the Gentiles, is peculiar to the true God, who is the most High in all the earth; see ( Psalms 83:18 ) .

Jeremías 16:21 In-Context

19 Oh SEÑOR, fortaleza mía, y fuerza mía, y refugio mío en el tiempo de la aflicción; a ti vendrán gentiles desde los extremos de la tierra, y dirán: Ciertamente mentira poseyeron nuestros padres, vanidad, y no hay en ellos provecho

20 ¿Hará por ventura el hombre dioses para sí? Mas ellos no serán dioses

21 Por tanto, he aquí, les enseñaré esta vez, les enseñaré mi mano y mi fortaleza, y sabrán que mi Nombre es el SEÑOR