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Jeremiah 15:18
a deceitfulbrook] The dried-up watercourse belies the anticipations of the thirsty traveller. Cp. Job 6:15.
fail lit. as mg. are not sure.
a deceitfulbrook] The dried-up watercourse belies the anticipations of the thirsty traveller. Cp. Job 6:15.
fail lit. as mg. are not sure.
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,...
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...
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
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...
A LIAR. a deceitful [brook]. The _Ellipsis_, to be supplied from next clause, as. brook that disappointeth. Compare Job 6:20....
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...
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...
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...
1-9. The coming woes described....
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...
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...
לָ֣מָּה הָיָ֤ה כְאֵבִי֙ נֶ֔צַח וּ מַכָּתִ֖י א
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
The Prophet's Lamentation...
Why is my pain perpetual, namely, the grief and sorrow which the prophet felt over the judgment of condemnation which he was obliged to proclaim to his people, AND MY WOUND INCURABLE, WHICH REFUSETH T...
FAIL?: _ Heb._ be not sure?...
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...
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...
Jeremiah 15:18 pain H3511 perpetual H5331 wound H4347 incurable H605 (H8803) refuses H3985 (H8765) healed H7495
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...
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...
_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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 15:18 A DECEITFUL BROOK. Jeremiah accuses God of failing to protect him. ⇐...
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...
Jeremiah 1:18; Jeremiah 1:19; Jeremiah 14:19; Jeremiah 14:3; Je
Why — Jeremiah, though a great prophet, was (as Elijah) a man subject to like passions with other men....