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Jeremiah 15:5

For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem, or who shall bemoan thee? in a feeling of sympathy for the various punishments which were about to strike her. Or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest? in a neighborly form of inquiry concerning her welfare. By the dispensation of Jehovah, men were simply ignoring her and her plight, letting her alone in her misery.

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See also Jeremiah 15:5 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 15:5. _WHO SHALL GO ASIDE TO ASK HOW THOU DOEST?_] Perhaps there is not a more despised nor a more degraded people under the sun. Scarcely any one thinks himself called upon to do a kin...

  • 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

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HOW THOU DOEST?. of thy welfare?...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See introd. summary to section....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest? WHO SHALL GO ASIDE TO ASK HOW THOU DOEST? - Who will turn aside (in passing b...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    TO ASK HOW THOU DOEST? — This is a fair paraphrase of the original, but it wants the Oriental colouring of the more literal _to ask after thy peace._ As “Peace be with thee” was the usual formula of s...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֠י מִֽי ־יַחְמֹ֤ל עָלַ֨יִךְ֙ יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם וּ...

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Peace. All will abhor thee. (Calmet) --- "The creatures cannot be so clement as the Creator." (St. Jerome)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    These judgments had their accomplishment, in the captivity that followed, when the people were carried away to Babylon....

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet shews here that the severe punishment of which he had spoken could not be deemed unjust, according to what those men thought who were querulous, and ever expostulated with God, and charged...

  • 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

    FOR WHO SHALL HAVE PITY UPON THEE, O JERUSALEM?.... The inhabitants of it; their sins being so many, and so heinous, and so aggravated, and so deserving of punishment, that none could pity their case,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest? Ver. 5. _Who shall bemoan thee?_] Heb., Who shall come out of his place to comfo...

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

    _If they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth?_ If they ask thee what thou meanest by going forth, and whither they shall go: _thou shalt tell them, Such as are for death to death_, &c. In general...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    ASK HOW THOU DOEST?: _ Heb._ to ask of thy thy peace...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    The sum of this is, that this people should be in a most miserable, pitiless state and condition; none should regard them in the day of their calamity, nor so much as once inquire after them, or how t...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 15:5 pity H2550 (H8799) Jerusalem H3389 bemoan H5110 (H8799) aside H5493 (H8799) ask H7592 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 15:5 WHO? Judah has no allies, and God has left them. ⇐ ⇔

  • 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

    1 Samuel 10:4; 1 Samuel 17:22; 1 Samuel 25:5; Exodus 18:7; Isaiah 51:19

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