Jeremiah 15:19

If thou return If thou wilt dismiss thy doubts and thy tone of reproach and distrust, which is virtually apostasy from Me.

mayest stand before me mayest be My minister. The phrase is a common one in this sense, e.g. 1 Kings 18:15; 2 Kings 3:14: cp. Proverbs 22:29. But see also on Jeremiah 15:1.

if thou take forth the precious from the vile i.e. if that which comes forth from thy lips (cp. the expression in Jeremiah 17:16) be choice, and wholly separate from the common. "Vile" is a misleading translation. It should be common, i.e. of no account.

my mouth My mouth-piece, spokesman. Cp. Exodus 4:16.

they shall, etc.] Du. rejects this last part of the v., as an unsuitable play on the word "return" at the beginning of the v., as well as because the despisers of Jehovah's words had no intention of returning to the prophet.