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Jeremia 27

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1 En la komenco de la regxado de Jehojakim, filo de Josxija, regxo de Judujo, aperis de la Eternulo jena vorto al Jeremia:

2 Tiele diras al mi la Eternulo:Faru al vi ligilojn kaj jugon, kaj metu tion sur vian kolon;

3 kaj sendu tion al la regxo de Edom kaj al la regxo de Moab kaj al la regxo de la Amonidoj kaj al la regxo de Tiro kaj al la regxo de Cidon, per la senditoj, kiuj venis Jerusalemon al Cidkija, regxo de Judujo;

4 kaj komisiu al ili, ke ili diru al siaj sinjoroj jene:Tiele diras la Eternulo Cebaot, Dio de Izrael:Tiele diru al viaj sinjoroj:

5 Per Mia granda forto kaj per Mia etendita brako Mi kreis la teron, la homojn kaj la bestojn, kiuj estas sur la tero; kaj Mi donas tion al tiu, kiu placxas al Mi.

6 Kaj nun Mi transdonas cxiujn tiujn landojn en la manon de Mia servanto Nebukadnecar, regxo de Babel, kaj ecx la bestojn de la kampo Mi transdonas al li, por ke ili servu al li.

7 Kaj servos al li cxiuj popoloj, ankaux al lia filo kaj al la filo de lia filo, gxis venos la tempo ankaux por lia lando kaj lin sklavigos potencaj popoloj kaj grandaj regxoj.

8 Kaj se ia popolo kaj regno ne servos al li, al Nebukadnecar, regxo de Babel, kaj ne metos sian kolon sub la jugon de la regxo de Babel, Mi punos tiun popolon per glavo kaj malsato kaj pesto, diras la Eternulo, gxis Mi ekstermos ilin per lia mano.

9 Ne auxskultu do viajn profetojn, nek viajn magiistojn, nek viajn songxoklarigistojn, nek viajn auxguristojn, nek viajn sorcxistojn, kiuj diras al vi jene:Ne servu al la regxo de Babel.

10 CXar ili profetas al vi malverajxon, por malproksimigi vin de via lando, por ke Mi elpelu vin kaj vi pereu.

11 Sed tiun popolon, kiu metos sian kolon sub la jugon de la regxo de Babel kaj servos al li, tiun Mi restigos trankvile sur gxia tero, diras la Eternulo, por prilaboradi gxin kaj logxi sur gxi.

12 Kaj al Cidkija, regxo de Judujo, mi diris tiajn samajn vortojn, nome:Metu vian kolon sub la jugon de la regxo de Babel, kaj servu al li kaj al lia popolo, kaj restu vivantaj.

13 Por kio vi volus morti, vi kaj via popolo, de glavo, de malsato, kaj de pesto, kiel la Eternulo decidis pri popolo, kiu ne servos al la regxo de Babel?

14 Ne auxskultu la vortojn de la profetoj, kiuj diras al vi, ke vi ne servu al la regxo de Babel; cxar ili profetas al vi malverajxon.

15 CXar Mi ne sendis ilin, diras la Eternulo, kaj ili malvere profetas en Mia nomo, por ke Mi elpelu vin, kaj por ke vi pereu, vi kaj la profetoj, kiuj profetas al vi.

16 Kaj al la pastroj kaj al la tuta cxi tiu popolo mi diris jene:Tiele diras la Eternulo:Ne auxskultu la vortojn de viaj profetoj, kiuj profetas al vi jene:Jen la vazoj de la domo de la Eternulo nun baldaux estos revenigitaj el Babel; cxar malverajxon ili profetas al vi.

17 Ne auxskultu ilin; servu al la regxo de Babel, por ke vi vivu; por kio cxi tiu urbo farigxu dezerto?

18 Se ili estas profetoj kaj se ili havas la vorton de la Eternulo, ili elpetegu de la Eternulo Cebaot, ke la vazoj, kiuj restis en la domo de la Eternulo kaj en la domo de la regxo de Judujo kaj en Jerusalem, ne transiru en Babelon.

19 CXar tiele diras la Eternulo Cebaot pri la kolonoj, pri la maro, pri la bazoj, kaj pri la ceteraj vazoj, kiuj restis en cxi tiu urbo

20 kaj kiujn ne prenis Nebukadnecar, regxo de Babel, kiam li forkondukis Jehxonjan, filon de Jehojakim, regxon de Judujo, el Jerusalem en Babelon, kaj ankaux cxiujn eminentulojn de Judujo kaj Jerusalem;

21 tiele diras la Eternulo Cebaot, Dio de Izrael, pri la vazoj, kiuj restis en la domo de la Eternulo kaj en la domo de la regxo de Judujo kaj en Jerusalem:

22 En Babelon ili estos forportitaj, kaj tie ili restos, gxis la tago, kiam Mi rememoros ilin, diras la Eternulo, kaj prenigos kaj reportigos ilin sur cxi tiun lokon.

   

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7673. 'Stretch out your hand' means an exercising of power. This is clear from the meaning of 'stretching out' as that which is connected with the exercising of control, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'hand' as power, dealt with in 878, 3387, 4931-4937, 5327, 5328, 5544, 6292, 6947, 7011, 7188, 7189, 7518. The reason why 'stretching out the hand' means the exercising of power is that there is power in the hand or arm when it is stretched out. When therefore Jehovah is said to stretch out His hand or arm, boundless or infinite power in action is meant. This explains why Jehovah told Moses on so many occasions, when miracles were to be performed, to stretch out his hand or his rod; for example,

Stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, and they will be blood. Exodus 7:19.

Stretch out your hand over the rivers, and cause frogs to rise up. Exodus 8:1-2. 1

Stretch out your rod and strike the dust of the land, and it will then be lice. Exodus 8:11, 12. 2

Stretch out your hand towards heaven, and there will be hail. Exodus 9:22-23.

Such words would never have been used but for the meaning of 'stretching out the hand' in the highest sense as Jehovah's almighty power.

[2] The same thing is meant by Joshua's being told to stretch out his javelin, described in his book as follows,

Jehovah said to Joshua, Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand towards Ai. When therefore Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand towards Ai, the ambush rose up quickly out of their place and ran, as soon as he stretched out his hand, and came to the city and took it. Joshua did not withdraw his hand which he had stretched out together with the javelin until all the inhabitants of Ai had been utterly destroyed. Joshua 8:18-19, 26.

Being representative of God's almighty power, this too, like all other representative actions when they were commanded in those times, had force.

[3] There are a number of other places in which almighty power is described when it says that Jehovah 'stretches out His hand', or else His 'outstretched hand' or His 'outstretched arm' is spoken of. It is described by Jehovah stretching out His hand in Isaiah,

The anger [of Jehovah] has been roused against His people, and He has stretched out His hand over them and struck them, and the mountains were shaken. Isaiah 5:25.

In Ezekiel,

I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him. Ezekiel 14:9, 13.

In the same prophet,

I will stretch out My hand against you, and give you as plunder to the nations. Ezekiel 25:7.

I will stretch out My hand over Edom, and cut off from it man and beast. I will stretch out My hand over the philistines, and cut off . . . Ezekiel 25:13, 16.

Other places like these are Ezekiel 35:3; Isaiah 31:3; Zephaniah 1:4; 2:13. The use of 'outstretched hand' to describe almighty power occurs in Isaiah,

Jehovah's outstretched hand is over all the nations; who will turn it back? Isaiah 14:26, 27.

In Jeremiah,

I will fight with you with an outstretched hand and a strong arm, and in anger and in fury. Jeremiah 21:5.

In Isaiah,

Still His hand is outstretched. Isaiah 9:12, 17; 10:4.

The use of 'outstretched arm' occurs in Jeremiah,

I have made the earth, man, and beast by My great strength and by My outstretched arm. Jeremiah 27:5.

In the same prophet,

You have made heaven and earth by Your great power and Your outstretched arm; there is no matter 3 that is too impossible for You. Jeremiah 32:17.

Here it is self-evident that 'outstretched arm' means almighty power. The same applies to many other places in which the expression 'by a strong hand and an outstretched arm' is used, such as Deuteronomy 4:34; 5:15; 7:19; 9:29; 11:2; 26:8; 1 Kings 8:42; 2 Kings 17:36; Jeremiah 32:21; Ezekiel 20:33, 34.

[4] There are places too in which Jehovah is said to 'stretch out the heavens', and in these places also 'stretching out' means almighty power; that is to say, He expands the limits of heaven and fills those who are there with life and wisdom, as in Isaiah,

Jehovah is He who stretches out the heavens like a thin veil, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. Isaiah 40:22.

In the same prophet,

Jehovah is He who stretches out the heavens, spreads out the earth, gives breath 4 to His people upon it, and spirit to those who walk on it. Isaiah 42:5.

In Jeremiah,

. . . He who makes the earth by His power, prepares the world by His wisdom, and stretches out the heavens by His intelligence. Jeremiah 51:15.

In Zechariah,

Jehovah is He who stretches out the heavens, and founds the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him. Zechariah 12:1.

There are still more places besides these, such as Isaiah 44:24; 45:12; Psalms 104:2.

From all this one may now see why Moses was commanded to stretch out his hand and rod, that miracles were performed when he did so, and that 'stretching out the hand' for that reason means the exercising of power, and in the highest sense almighty power.

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1Exodus 8:5-6 in English Bibles

2Exodus 8:16-17 in English Bibles

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Exodus 10

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1 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs in the midst of them,

2 and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son's son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh."

3 Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, "This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

4 Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,

5 and they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one won't be able to see the earth. They shall eat the residue of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field.

6 Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as neither your fathers nor your fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.'" He turned, and went out from Pharaoh.

7 Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don't you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?"

8 Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, "Go, serve Yahweh your God; but who are those who will Go?"

9 Moses said, "We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast to Yahweh."

10 He said to them, "Yahweh be with you if I will let you go with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces.

11 Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is what you desire!" They were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.

12 Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left."

13 Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all the night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

14 The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.

15 For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, "I have sinned against Yahweh your God, and against you.

17 Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may also take away from me this death."

18 He went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh.

19 Yahweh turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.

20 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let the children of Israel go.

21 Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt."

22 Moses stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.

23 They didn't see one another, neither did anyone rise from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

24 Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, "Go, serve Yahweh. Only let your flocks and your herds stay behind. Let your little ones also Go with you."

25 Moses said, "You must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God.

26 Our livestock also shall go with us. Not a hoof shall be left behind, for of it we must take to serve Yahweh our God; and we don't know with what we must serve Yahweh, until we come there."

27 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he wouldn't let them go.

28 Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me! Be careful to see my face no more; for in the day you see my face you shall die!"

29 Moses said, "You have spoken well. I will see your face again no more."