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Verse Jeremiah 15:18. _WILT THOU BE ALTOGETHER UNTO ME AS - WATERS_
THAT _FAIL?_] Meaning either springs, which in the height of summer
grow dry; or, like that phenomenon in the sandy desert, where,...
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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
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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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A LIAR. a deceitful [brook]. The _Ellipsis_, to be supplied from next
clause, as. brook that disappointeth. Compare Job 6:20....
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See summary at commencement of section....
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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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_a deceitful_brook] The dried-up watercourse belies the anticipations
of the thirsty traveller. Cp. Job 6:15.
_fail_ lit. as mg. _are not sure_....
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WILT THOU BE ALTOGETHER, &C.— _Wilt thou be altogether unto me as
the lying of waters that are not sure?_ Our translation certainly
conveys too harsh an idea, nor is there any reason for it; for the
p...
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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 h...
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Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to
be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters
that fail?
WHY IS MY WOUND INCURABLE? Jeremiah's wound is inc...
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1-9. The coming woes described....
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LIAR] RV 'deceitful _brook._' _As_ WATERS _that_ FAIL] The figure is
that of a watercourse, which being dried up belies the anticipations
of the thirsty traveller: cp. Job 6:15. Jeremiah laments that...
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WILT THOU BE ALTOGETHER UNTO ME AS A LIAR...? — The words express a
bitter sense of failure and disappointment. God had not prospered the
mission of His servant as He had promised. The Hebrew, however...
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לָ֣מָּה הָיָ֤ה כְאֵבִי֙ נֶ֔צַח וּ
מַכָּתִ֖י א
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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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Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, [which] refuseth to
be healed? wilt thou be altogether to me (r) as a liar, [and as]
waters [that] fail?
(r) And have not assisted me according to th...
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_Trusted. It is not cured as soon as might be expected. (Haydock) ---
It continually breaks out again, (Menochius) like a bog not properly
drained. (Haydock) --- Hebrew, "Thou art become," &c. Chaldea...
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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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Before we proceed, we shall shortly refer to the meaning of the
passage. Jeremiah has before shewn that he possessed an heroic courage
in despising all the splendor of the world, and in regarding as
n...
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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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WHY IS MY PAIN PERPETUAL,.... The pain of his mind; his uneasiness for
the good of his people, which was likely to last, having no hope of a
change for the better: or it may design the pain which they...
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Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, [which] refuseth to
be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, [and as] waters
[that] fail?
Ver. 18. _Why is my pain perpetual? &c._] Here...
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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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FAIL?:
_ Heb._ be not sure?...
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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 wi...
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The words are judged to be the words of Jeremiah, and that with
relation unto himself, complaining of the hard task which God had put
upon him, continually filling his mouth With such bitter words of...
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Jeremiah 15:18 pain H3511 perpetual H5331 wound H4347 incurable H605
(H8803) refuses H3985 (H8765) healed H7495
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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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_Why is my pain perpetual?_
THE FUNCTION OF PAIN
This piteous lament may fitly represent the anguished cry of suffering
humanity, from age to age. In all lands, under all skies, in all
times, the sam...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 15:18 A DECEITFUL BROOK. Jeremiah accuses
God of failing to protect him.
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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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Jeremiah 1:18; Jeremiah 1:19; Jeremiah 14:19; Jeremiah 14:3; Je
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Why — Jeremiah, though a great prophet, was (as Elijah) a man
subject to like passions with other men....