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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 now answ...
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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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MOCKERS. merry-makers.
HAND. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), for guidance....
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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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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...
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I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone
because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.
I SAT NOT IN THE ASSEMBLY OF THE MOCKERS, NOR REJOICED - my
"rejo...
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15:17 assembly (c-6) Elsewhere 'secret council.' mockers, (d-9) Or
'them that make merry,' as. ch. 31.4....
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1-9. The coming woes described....
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IN THE ASSEMBLY OF THE MOCKERS. — Rather, _of the mirthful._ The
word, which is the same as that found in Isaac (= laughter), does not
necessarily imply an evil or cynical mirth, like that of the
“sco...
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לֹֽא ־יָשַׁ֥בְתִּי בְ סֹוד
־מְשַׂחֲקִ֖ים וָֽ אֶעְלֹ֑ז מִ פְּנֵ֤י
יָֽדְךָ֙ בָּדָ֣ד יָשַׁ֔בְתִּי כִּֽי
־זַ֖עַם
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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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I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone
(q) because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.
(q) I had nothing to do with the wicked contemners of your word,...
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_Jesters, who deride religion, (Psalm i. 1.) or sport away their time.
(Calmet) --- Hand, through vanity. Literally, and I boast of."
(Haydock) --- I rejoiced in suffering, as this prophet. Many (Calm...
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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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Here the Prophet more fully declares, that he was hated by the whole
people because he pleased God. He indeed inveighs against the impiety
of those who then bore rule; he does not here so much reprove...
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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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I SAT NOT IN THE ASSEMBLY OF THE MOCKERS, NOR REJOICED,.... With them,
the mockers; or, "those that make merry" r; as the word is rendered in
Jeremiah 30:19, and so the Targum,
"those that sing;''
a...
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I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone
because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.
Ver. 17. _I sat not in the assembly of the mockers._] That scoffed a...
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_I sat not in the assembly of the mockers_ Or, _of those that make
merry_, as משׂחקים is elsewhere rendered: see Jeremiah 30:19;
Jeremiah 31:4. Jeremiah soon found that the joy which he had conceived...
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The Prophet's Lamentation...
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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 wil...
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I SAT NOT IN THE ASSEMBLY OF THE MOCKERS, NOR REJOICED, some, and
those the most, interpret these words as an argument the prophet useth
with God to obtain his favour, because though the country was f...
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Jeremiah 15:17 sit H3427 (H8804) assembly H5475 mockers H7832 (H8764)
rejoice H5937 (H8799) sat H3427 (H8804) alone H910 because H6440 hand
H3027 filled H4390 (H8765) indignation H2195
sat not - Psal...
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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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_I sat not in the assembly of the mockers._
CHRISTIANS DELIGHT NOT IN GODLESS COMPANY
It is better and safer to ride alone than to have a thief’s company;
and such is a wicked man, who will rob thee...
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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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2 Corinthians 6:17; Daniel 7:28; Ezekiel 3:24; Ezekiel 3:25; Jeremiah
1:10; Jeremiah 13:17; Jeremiah 20:8; Jeremiah 20:9; Jeremiah 6:11;...
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I sat not — God had all along filled his mouth with such dreadful
messages, that his whole prophetical life had been to him a time of
mourning and solitude, a time when he sat alone, mourning and weep...