Verse Jeremiah 15:16. _THY WORD WAS - THE JOY AND REJOICING OF MINE HEART_] When I did receive the prophetic message, I did rejoice in the honour thou hadst done me; and I faithfully testified thy wil...
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...
FOUND. discovered. In the eighteenth year of Josiah 513 B.C. Hebrew. _maza'._ Not used of revelation. Reference to 2 Kings 22:8. 2Ch 34:14, 2 Chronicles 34:15. I AM CALLED BY THY NAME. Thy name was ca...
He describes the joy with which he first received the Divine commission. _were found_ Cp. Ezekiel 3:1, where "findest" (omitted, however, in the best MSS. of LXX) stands in the same connexion. _I did...
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...
See summary at commencement of section....
DISCOURSE: 1054 THE WORD OF GOD PRECIOUS Jeremiah 15:16. _Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart_. THE commission given to the prophets w...
THY WORDS WERE FOUND— _Thy words were pure and clean, and I have eaten them: thy words were my delight, and my heart is refreshed on this account, because I am called,_ &c. Houbigant. Jeremiah here de...
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...
Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts. THY WORDS ... I DID EAT - (; ; ;...
15:16 name, (b-29) Lit. 'thy name is called upon me.'...
1-9. The coming woes described....
He describes the joyful acceptance with which he first received the divine commission....
THY WORDS WERE FOUND... — The words _go_ back to the mission of Jeremiah 1, and paint, with a wonderful power, the beginning of a prophet’s work, the new-born intensity of joy in the sense of communio...
נִמְצְא֤וּ דְבָרֶ֨יךָ֙ וָ אֹ֣כְלֵ֔ם וַ יְהִ֤י _דְבָֽרְךָ֙_
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...
Thy words were found, and I (p) ate them; and thy word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts. (p) I received them with a great joy, as he that...
_Eat them. I received them most cordially, (Ezechiel iii. 1.; Haydock) as one who is hungry. --- Upon me. I was recognized as the prophet of the Lord._...
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...
The Prophet had said in the last verse that he was loaded with reproach on God’s account; for in his intercourse with his own people he did not incur their hatred for any private affair, but for his f...
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...
THY WORDS WERE FOUND, AND I DID EAT THEM, e.] The messages he was called to deliver unto others appeared to him to be of God, and they were as welcome to him as food is to a hungry man he cheerfully r...
Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts. Ver. 16. _Thy words were found, and I did eat...
_O Lord, thou knowest_ Thou knowest my sincerity, how faithfully I have declared thy will: or, thou knowest my sufferings, how wickedly my enemies act toward me. It is matter of comfort to us, that, w...
The Prophet's Lamentation...
Thy words were found, and I did eat them, the prophet eagerly laying hold of the words of Jehovah as they were offered; AND THY WORD WAS UNTO ME THE JOY AND REJOICING OF MINE HEART, FOR I AM CALLED BY...
I AM CALL BY THY NAME: _ Heb._ thy Name is called upon me...
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...
Either the words which from time to time thou didst reveal to me were by me greedily digested; and though some of them were dreadful and terrible words, yet because they proceeded from thee, I was gla...
Jeremiah 15:16 words H1697 found H4672 (H8738) ate H398 (H8799) word H1697 joy H8342 rejoicing H8057 heart...
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...
_Thy word was unto me the Joy and rejoicing of mine heart._ THE SOUL’S DISCOVERY AND USE OF THE WORDS OF GOD I. The soul’s discovery of the words of God. “Thy words were found.” 1. In their truth....
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...
Ezekiel 3:1; Jeremiah 14:9; Job 23:12; Psalms 19:10; Revelation 10:9
Thy words — The words which from time to time thou didst reveal to me, were by me greedily digested. I am called — I became a prophet by thy authority, therefore, do thou own and defend me....