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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Jeremiah 15:17

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 (Calmet) supply nor from the former part of the sentence. (Menochius) --- Threats. I could not refrain from admonishing the people of their ways, (Haydock) which I would not countenance by my presence. (Calmet) --- All indeed kept at a distance from me.

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See also Jeremiah 15:17 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • 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

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MOCKERS. merry-makers. HAND. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), for guidance....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See summary at commencement of section....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _because of thy hand_ Thy firm, compelling grasp. Cp. Isaiah 8:11; Ezekiel 1:3; Ezekiel 37:1....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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 "rejoi...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    15:17 assembly (c-6) Elsewhere 'secret council.' mockers, (d-9) Or 'them that make merry,' as. ch. 31.4....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE MOCKERS] RV 'them that make merry.' There is no suggestion of wrong doing in the original word. BECAUSE OF THY HAND] meaning God's guidance, His inspiration. For this sense of 'hand' cp. Isaiah 8:...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לֹֽא ־יָשַׁ֥בְתִּי בְ סֹוד ־מְשַׂחֲקִ֖ים וָֽ...

  • 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

    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,...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • 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

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

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

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I sat not in the assembly of the mockers nor rejoiced, he had not taken part in any frivolous gatherings; I SAT ALONE BECAUSE OF THY HAND, being isolated on account of the fact that the power of the L...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Prophet's Lamentation...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 15:17 sit H3427 (H8804) assembly H5475 mockers H7832 (H8764) rejoice H5937 (H8799) sat H3427 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • 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

    _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...

  • 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

    2 Corinthians 6:17; Daniel 7:28; Ezekiel 3:24; Ezekiel 3:25; Jer

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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...

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