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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Study Note
Jeremiah's prayer from the court of the guard, uttered while Babylon is besieging Jerusalem, opens with one of the Hebrew Bible's most exalted confessions of divine omnipotence: 'there is nothing too hard for thee' (lo-yipale). The juxtaposition of this confession with Jeremiah's puzzlement over God's command to purchase a field in a land about to fall (v. 25) is deliberate — the prophet reasons from divine power toward the possibility of restoration. God quotes this very phrase back to Jeremiah in verse 27 ('is there anything too hard for me?'), creating an echo that confirms the prayer was a prompt toward eschatological hope rather than merely rhetorical praise. The verse became a touchstone for Jewish and Christian affirmations of divine omnipotence (Genesis 18:14; Luke 1:37) and is embedded in liturgical confession.
Andere Übersetzungen
Ah Lord Jehovah! behold, thou hast made the heavens and the earth by thy great power and by thine outstretched arm; there is nothing too hard for thee,
`Ah, Lord Jehovah, lo, Thou hast made the heavens and the earth by Thy great power, and by Thy stretched-out arm; there is nothing too wonderful for Thee:
Ah Lord God! see, you have made the heaven and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm, and there is nothing you are not able to do:
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