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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 15:6

This verse gives the reason of the refusal of Yahweh to hear the prophet’s intercession. The punishment due has been delayed unto wearisomeness, and this seeming failure of justice has made Judah withdraw further from God.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 15:6. _I AM WEARY WITH REPENTING._] With repeatedly _changing my_ _purpose_. I have often, after purposing to punish, showed them mercy. I will do it no longer; it is useless. I took th...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 15 The Prophet's Deep Soul-Exercise _ 1. The answer (Jeremiah 15:1) _ 2. The prophet's grief and sorrow and Jehovah's answer (Jeremiah 15:10) Jeremiah 15:1. The preceding prayer is

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH 14:1 TO JEREMIAH 15:9. THE DROUGHT IN JUDAH, AND JEREMIAH'S CONSEQUENT INTERCESSION. The date of this disaster is unknown, but some year in the latter half of Jehoiakim's reign is most probab...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See introd. summary to section....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    E. The Final Rejection of Prophetic Intercession Jeremiah 15:1-9 TRANSLATION (1) And the LORD said unto me: If Moses and Samuel were standing before Me, I would have no affection for this people. Ca...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting. I AM WEARY WITH REPENTING - (, "Repent...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-9. The coming woes described....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THOU HAST FORSAKEN ME. — The Hebrew word has the stronger sense of rejecting or repudiating as well as simply leaving, and gives the reason for a like rejection on the part of Jehovah. I AM WEARY WITH...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אַ֣תְּ נָטַ֥שְׁתְּ אֹתִ֛י נְאֻם ־יְהוָ֖ה אָחֹ֣ור...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER IX THE DROUGHT AND ITS MORAL IMPLICATIONS Jeremiah 14:1; Jeremiah 15:1 (17?) VARIOUS opinions have been expressed about the division of these Chapter s. They have been cut up into short sect...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    To this great appeal Jehovah again replied by declaring mercy to be impossible, and judgment inevitable, and this on account of the sin of Manasseh which had been persisted in, namely, the rejection o...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am (e) weary with repenting. (e) That is, I will not call back my...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Intreating thee. Hebrew, "of being intreated;" (St. Jerome) or, "of repenting," and suspending the effects of my wrath. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "I will no longer spare them." (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    These judgments had their accomplishment, in the captivity that followed, when the people were carried away to Babylon....

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Then follows the reason — _For thou hast forsaken me, saith Jehovah _Since, then, God had been rejected by the Jews, did not such a defection bring its deserved reward, when they were deprived of ever...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The beginning of chapter 15 is an answer to the close of chapter 14; but the instruction and the principles it contains are very remarkable. Jehovah declares that if Moses and Samuel (whose love for I...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THOU HAST FORSAKEN ME, SAITH THE LORD,.... His worship, as the Targum; and had set up idols, and idol worship; and this was the cause of the sword, pestilence, famine, and captivity, and of all the ev...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting. Ver. 6. _I am weary with repenting._] _P...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Thou hast forsaken me, thou art gone backward_ God here, by more expressions of the same import with many that we have before met with, declares his steady resolution to destroy them for their aposta...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Thou hast forsaken Me, saith the Lord, rejecting the God of the covenant, THOU ART GONE BACKWARD, away from Him and His Word; THEREFORE WILL I STRETCH OUT MY HAND AGAINST THEE AND DESTROY THEE, in one...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE LORD REFUSES HELP THE SECOND TIME...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-9 The Lord declares that even Moses and Samuel must have pleaded in vain. The putting of this as a case, though they should stand before him, shows that they do not, and that saints in heaven do no...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    God here, by more phrases of the same import with many that we have before met with, declareth his steady resolution to destroy them for their apostacy from him; and sets out himself to them as angry...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 15:6 forsaken H5203 (H8804) says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 gone H3212 (H8799) backward H268 out...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH'S RESPONSE TO JEREMIAH'S PLEA IS OF THE ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY AND AWFULNESS OF THE COMING JUDGMENT (JEREMIAH 15:1). In the face of Jeremiah's plea YHWH now makes clear that nothing can now stop His...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    REPENTING (_ See Scofield) - (Zechariah 8:14). _...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Message on the drought, concluded. The people abandoned to ruin. Jeremiah complains of his hardships. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Moses, Samuel. CONCLUSION: Miserable is the case of those w...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 15:1. _Though Moses and Samuel stood before me,_ as when Moses by his prayers saved the nation, Exodus 32:11, and Samuel in Mizpeh was heard, when the Lord terrified the Philistine armies by...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Thou hast forsaken Me._ GOD FORSAKING AND GOD FORSAKEN I. A God-forsaking people. Conviction by God Himself of this great folly and sin. In Jeremiah 2:13, the charge is more complete. Creation is c...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I am weary with repenting._ THE ALMIGHTY WEARY WITH REPENTING I. God repenting. God condescends to designate His conduct by that name. The expression may be inadequate and defective, but still langu...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 15:6 RELENTING. God is WEARY of holding back punishment. The people do not change their ways despite the mercy he shows when he relents....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES—For _Chronology of the Chapter and Historical Facts_, see on chap. Jeremiah 10:5 _in loc_. 1. PERSONAL ALLUSIONS. Jeremiah 15:1. “_Moses and Samuel_,” here mentioned as h...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 15:1 Second rejection of Jeremiah's intercession; awfulness of the impending judgment. JEREMIAH 15:1 THOUGH MOSES AND SAMUEL, etc. It is a mere supposition which is here made; t...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go foRuth (Jeremiah 15:1). Now it is interesti...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Amos 7:3; Ezekiel 12:26; Ezekiel 14:9; Ezekiel 25:7; Hosea 11:7;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    I am weary — I am resolved to bear no longer....

  • When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960

    Can God repent? PROBLEM: The prophet speaks of God repenting so many times that He is “weary of relenting.” Yet in other places the Bible affirms that “He is not a man that He should relent” (1 Samue...

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