Jeremiah 15:15

O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.

Thou knowest - namely, my case: what wrongs my adversaries have done me ().

Revenge me - (note, ). The prophet in this had regard to, not his own personal feelings of revenge, but the cause of God; he speaks by inspiration God's will against the unholy. Contrast the prayer of the dying Saviour, and of His first martyr, Stephen (, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do;" , "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge"). At the same time, denunciations of the ungodly occur in the Gospel too: and love to enemies, on the other hand, is also taught in the law. So perfectly do both Testaments mutually harmonize.

Take me not away in thy long-suffering - by thy long-suffering toward them, suffer them not meanwhile to take away my life.

For thy sake I have suffered rebuke - the very words of the antitype, Jesus Christ (; ), which last ("Pour out thine indignation upon them," etc.) compare with Jeremiah's prayer in the beginning of this verse.