George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 15:6
Intreating thee. Hebrew, "of being intreated;" (St. Jerome) or, "of repenting," and suspending the effects of my wrath. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "I will no longer spare them." (Haydock)
Intreating thee. Hebrew, "of being intreated;" (St. Jerome) or, "of repenting," and suspending the effects of my wrath. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "I will no longer spare them." (Haydock)
Verse Jeremiah 15:6. _I AM WEARY WITH REPENTING._] With repeatedly _changing my_ _purpose_. I have often, after purposing to punish, showed them mercy. I will do it no longer; it is useless. I took th...
This verse gives the reason of the refusal of Yahweh to hear the prophet’s intercession. The punishment due has been delayed unto wearisomeness, and this seeming failure of justice has made Judah with...
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
JEREMIAH 14:1 TO JEREMIAH 15:9. THE DROUGHT IN JUDAH, AND JEREMIAH'S CONSEQUENT INTERCESSION. The date of this disaster is unknown, but some year in the latter half of Jehoiakim's reign is most probab...
See introd. summary to section....
E. The Final Rejection of Prophetic Intercession Jeremiah 15:1-9 TRANSLATION (1) And the LORD said unto me: If Moses and Samuel were standing before Me, I would have no affection for this people. Ca...
Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting. I AM WEARY WITH REPENTING - (, "Repent...
1-9. The coming woes described....
THOU HAST FORSAKEN ME. — The Hebrew word has the stronger sense of rejecting or repudiating as well as simply leaving, and gives the reason for a like rejection on the part of Jehovah. I AM WEARY WITH...
אַ֣תְּ נָטַ֥שְׁתְּ אֹתִ֛י נְאֻם ־יְהוָ֖ה אָחֹ֣ור...
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...
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...
Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am (e) weary with repenting. (e) That is, I will not call back my...
These judgments had their accomplishment, in the captivity that followed, when the people were carried away to Babylon....
Then follows the reason — _For thou hast forsaken me, saith Jehovah _Since, then, God had been rejected by the Jews, did not such a defection bring its deserved reward, when they were deprived of ever...
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...
THOU HAST FORSAKEN ME, SAITH THE LORD,.... His worship, as the Targum; and had set up idols, and idol worship; and this was the cause of the sword, pestilence, famine, and captivity, and of all the ev...
Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting. Ver. 6. _I am weary with repenting._] _P...
_Thou hast forsaken me, thou art gone backward_ God here, by more expressions of the same import with many that we have before met with, declares his steady resolution to destroy them for their aposta...
Thou hast forsaken Me, saith the Lord, rejecting the God of the covenant, THOU ART GONE BACKWARD, away from Him and His Word; THEREFORE WILL I STRETCH OUT MY HAND AGAINST THEE AND DESTROY THEE, in one...
THE LORD REFUSES HELP THE SECOND TIME...
1-9 The Lord declares that even Moses and Samuel must have pleaded in vain. The putting of this as a case, though they should stand before him, shows that they do not, and that saints in heaven do no...
God here, by more phrases of the same import with many that we have before met with, declareth his steady resolution to destroy them for their apostacy from him; and sets out himself to them as angry...
Jeremiah 15:6 forsaken H5203 (H8804) says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 gone H3212 (H8799) backward H268 out...
YHWH'S RESPONSE TO JEREMIAH'S PLEA IS OF THE ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY AND AWFULNESS OF THE COMING JUDGMENT (JEREMIAH 15:1). In the face of Jeremiah's plea YHWH now makes clear that nothing can now stop His...
REPENTING (_ See Scofield) - (Zechariah 8:14). _...
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...
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...
_Thou hast forsaken Me._ GOD FORSAKING AND GOD FORSAKEN I. A God-forsaking people. Conviction by God Himself of this great folly and sin. In Jeremiah 2:13, the charge is more complete. Creation is c...
_I am weary with repenting._ THE ALMIGHTY WEARY WITH REPENTING I. God repenting. God condescends to designate His conduct by that name. The expression may be inadequate and defective, but still langu...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 15:6 RELENTING. God is WEARY of holding back punishment. The people do not change their ways despite the mercy he shows when he relents....
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...
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...
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...
Amos 7:3; Ezekiel 12:26; Ezekiel 14:9; Ezekiel 25:7; Hosea 11:7;...
I am weary — I am resolved to bear no longer....
Can God repent? PROBLEM: The prophet speaks of God repenting so many times that He is “weary of relenting.” Yet in other places the Bible affirms that “He is not a man that He should relent” (1 Samue...