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Verse Jeremiah 15:16. _THY WORD WAS - THE JOY AND REJOICING OF MINE
HEART_] When I did receive the prophetic message, I did rejoice in the
honour thou hadst done me; and I faithfully testified thy wil...
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This is the prayer of a man in bitter grief, whose human nature cannot
at present submit to the divine will. God’s long-suffering toward
the wicked seemed to the prophet to be the abandonment of himse...
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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
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THE SORROW AND STRENGTH OF PROPHETIC SERVICE. The experience of the
prophet, as described in the following section, may be the result of
his unpopularity at the time of the drought, and therefore be r...
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FOUND. discovered. In the eighteenth year of Josiah 513 B.C. Hebrew.
_maza'._ Not used of revelation. Reference to 2 Kings 22:8. 2Ch 34:14,
2 Chronicles 34:15.
I AM CALLED BY THY NAME. Thy name was ca...
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Jeremiah 15:10-21. The prophet bewails his lot. God's reply
The passage as a whole is one of the most eloquent and pathetic in
the Book. The date cannot be determined with confidence. The latter
part...
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See summary at commencement of section....
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He describes the joy with which he first received the Divine
commission.
_were found_ Cp. Ezekiel 3:1, where "findest" (omitted, however, in
the best MSS. of LXX) stands in the same connexion.
_I did...
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DISCOURSE: 1054
THE WORD OF GOD PRECIOUS
Jeremiah 15:16. _Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy
word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart_.
THE commission given to the prophets w...
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THY WORDS WERE FOUND— _Thy words were pure and clean, and I have
eaten them: thy words were my delight, and my heart is refreshed on
this account, because I am called,_ &c. Houbigant. Jeremiah here
de...
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B. The Prayer of Jeremiah 15:15-18
TRANSLATION
(15) You, O LORD, know; remember me, visit me, and avenge me of my
persecutors. Do not take me away by deferring your anger. Know that
for Your sake I h...
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Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me
the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O
LORD God of hosts.
THY WORDS ... I DID EAT - (; ; ;...
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15:16 name, (b-29) Lit. 'thy name is called upon me.'...
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THY WORDS WERE FOUND... — The words _go_ back to the mission of
Jeremiah 1, and paint, with a wonderful power, the beginning of a
prophet’s work, the new-born intensity of joy in the sense of
communio...
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נִמְצְא֤וּ דְבָרֶ֨יךָ֙ וָ אֹ֣כְלֵ֔ם
וַ יְהִ֤י _דְבָֽרְךָ֙_
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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...
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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...
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Thy words were found, and I (p) ate them; and thy word was to me the
joy and rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God
of hosts.
(p) I received them with a great joy, as he that...
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_Eat them. I received them most cordially, (Ezechiel iii. 1.; Haydock)
as one who is hungry. --- Upon me. I was recognized as the prophet of
the Lord._...
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Though the Lord would not listen to the prophet's prayer, to avert the
visitation concerning the captivity; yet for Jeremiah's personal
safety, the Lord remembered his covenant: see Jeremiah 1:19. Rea...
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The Prophet had said in the last verse that he was loaded with
reproach on God’s account; for in his intercourse with his own
people he did not incur their hatred for any private affair, but for
his f...
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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...
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THY WORDS WERE FOUND, AND I DID EAT THEM, e.] The messages he was
called to deliver unto others appeared to him to be of God, and they
were as welcome to him as food is to a hungry man he cheerfully
r...
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Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the
joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD
God of hosts.
Ver. 16. _Thy words were found, and I did eat...
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_O Lord, thou knowest_ Thou knowest my sincerity, how faithfully I
have declared thy will: or, thou knowest my sufferings, how wickedly
my enemies act toward me. It is matter of comfort to us, that,
w...
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Thy words were found, and I did eat them, the prophet eagerly laying
hold of the words of Jehovah as they were offered; AND THY WORD WAS
UNTO ME THE JOY AND REJOICING OF MINE HEART, FOR I AM CALLED BY...
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The Prophet's Lamentation...
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I AM CALL BY THY NAME:
_ Heb._ thy Name is called upon me...
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15-21 It is matter of comfort that we have a God, to whose knowledge
of all things we may appeal. Jeremiah pleads with God for mercy and
relief against his enemies, persecutors, and slanderers. It wi...
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Either the words which from time to time thou didst reveal to me were
by me greedily digested; and though some of them were dreadful and
terrible words, yet because they proceeded from thee, I was gla...
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Jeremiah 15:16 words H1697 found H4672 (H8738) ate H398 (H8799) word
H1697 joy H8342 rejoicing H8057 heart...
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PRIVATE DEALINGS BETWEEN JEREMIAH AND YHWH (JEREMIAH 15:15).
In this passage where he is wrestling with self-doubt Jeremiah
stresses that he has been faithful to God's word (Jeremiah 15:16) and
God's...
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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...
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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...
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_Thy word was unto me the Joy and rejoicing of mine heart._
THE SOUL’S DISCOVERY AND USE OF THE WORDS OF GOD
I. The soul’s discovery of the words of God. “Thy words were
found.”
1. In their truth....
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 15:16 YOUR WORDS WERE FOUND, AND I ATE
THEM. As a true prophet, Jeremiah digested, delighted in, and spoke
God’s words in God’s NAME for the people’s good....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Ezekiel 3:1; Jeremiah 14:9; Job 23:12; Psalms 19:10; Revelation 10:9
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Thy words — The words which from time to time thou didst reveal to
me, were by me greedily digested. I am called — I became a prophet
by thy authority, therefore, do thou own and defend me....