Jeremiah 15:18

Jeremiah 15:18

16 Your words were found, and I ^aate them,
And ^bYour word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart;
For I am called by Your name,
O Lord God of hosts.

17 ^aI did not sit in the assembly of the mockers,
Nor did I rejoice;
I sat alone because of Your hand,
For You have filled me with indignation.

18 Why is my ^apain perpetual
And my wound incurable,
Which refuses to be healed?
Will You surely be to me ^blike an unreliable stream,
As waters that¹ fail?

The Lord Reassures Jeremiah

19 Therefore thus says the Lord:
^a“If you return,
Then I will bring you back;
You shall ^bstand before Me;
If you ^ctake out the precious from the vile,
You shall be as My mouth.
Let them return to you,
But you must not return to them.

20 And I will make you to this people a fortified bronze ^awall;
And they will fight against you,
But ^bthey shall not prevail against you;
For I am with you to save you
And deliver you,” says the Lord.

21 “I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked,
And I will redeem you from the grip of the terrible.”

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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(Jeremiah 30:15). "Pain," namely, the perpetual persecution to which he was exposed, and his being left by God without consolation and "alone." Contrast his feeling here with that in Jeremiah 15:16, when he enjoyed the full presence of God, and was inspired by His words. Therefore he utters words of his natural "infirmity" (so David, Psalms 77:10) here; as before he spoke under the higher spiritual nature given him.

as a liar, and as—rather, "as a deceiving (river) . . . waters that are not sure (lasting)"; opposed to "tiring (perennial) waters" (Job 6:15). Streams that the thirsty traveller had calculated on being full in winter, but which disappoint him in his sorest need, having run dry in the heat of summer. Jehovah had promised Jeremiah protection from his enemies (Jeremiah 1:18-19); his infirmity suggests that God had failed to do so.

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