This verse is almost the same as Deut 26.8.

In some languages translators have to decide whether with signs and wonders is instrumental (that is, the LORD used the signs and wonders to deliver the people) or whether signs and wonders are simply events that accompanied the delivery. Good News Translation and most translations follow the first interpretation with “By means of.”

With a strong hand and outstretched arm are also instrumental in form; in fact, they are parallel with with signs and wonders. A strong hand has the same meaning as an outstretched arm: “power and might” (Good News Translation) and “might and main” (Moffatt).

With great terror is in reality a causative expression, “causing [others] great terror,” which is the basis for Good News Translation “terrified our enemies.”

For the whole verse Good News Translation is a helpful model for translators. Another possibility is:

• You used miracles and wonders to bring your people Israel out of Egypt. Yes, the power and might you used terrified their enemies.

Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Stine, Philip C. A Handbook on Jeremiah. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2003. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .