Verse Jeremiah 15:19. _IF THOU RETURN_] By repentance unto me, - _THEN WILL I BRING THEE AGAIN_] Restore thee to thy own country. But some think the words are spoken to the prophet in reference to h...
Jeremiah had questioned God’s righteousness (see Jeremiah 12:1 note); he is told, “If thou return,” if thou repent thee of thy doubts, and think only of thy duty, “then will I bring thee again, then w...
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...
STAND BEFORE ME: i.e. as My servant. Compare 1 Kings 18:15; 2 Kings 3:14. TAKE FORTH THE PRECIOUS, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 10:10)....
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...
_If thou return_ If thou wilt dismiss thy doubts and thy tone of reproach and distrust, which is virtually apostasy from Me. _mayest stand before me_ mayest be My minister. The phrase is a common one...
See summary at commencement of section....
IF THOU RETURN, &C.— Houbigant reads, _If thou wilt sit still, I will give thee a certain seat: yea, thou shalt stand before me. "_Thou shalt not be of the number of those who shall be carried away ca...
C. The Reply of the Lord Jeremiah 15:19-21 TRANSLATION (19) Therefore thus says the LORD: If you return, then I will restore you; before Me you shall continue to stand. And if you cause the precious...
Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them ret...
15:19 vile, (e-28) Same word as 'profligate,' Deuteronomy 21:20 ; 'vile,' Lamentations 1:11 ....
RETURN] i.e. repent öf his murmuring. STAND BEFORE ME] as my servant: cp. for the phrase, 1 Kings 18:15; 2 Kings 3:14. TAKE FORTH THE PRECIOUS FROM THE VILE] i.e. purge himself of his distrust. LET TH...
1-9. The coming woes described....
THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD... — The Divine voice within makes answer to the passionate complaint. The prophet also needs, not less than the people, to “return” to his true mind, to repent of his mu...
לָכֵ֞ן כֹּֽה ־אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה אִם ־תָּשׁ֤וּב ו
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...
Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou shalt (s) return, then will I bring thee again, [and] thou shalt stand before me: and if thou shalt separate the (t) precious from the vile, thou shalt be (u) as...
Converted, and cease to fear the people; (Calmet) and confide in my precious words, (Haydock) despising the vile threats of the people. (Menochius) --- Mouth; interpreter, Exodus iv. 16. Chaldean, "If...
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...
From this answer of God we may gather more clearly the design of the Prophet, for his purpose was, in order more fully to prove the people guilty, to set before their eyes as it were his own perversen...
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...
THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD, IF THOU RETURN,.... From thine unbelief, diffidence, and impenitence, and repent of them; expressed in the preceding verses: THEN WILL I BRING THEE AGAIN; or, "restore...
Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, [and] thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them re...
_Therefore thus saith the Lord_ In these verses we have God's gracious answer to the preceding expostulation. Though the prophet betrayed much human frailty in his address, yet God vouchsafed to answe...
Therefore, thus saith the Lord, in a gentle reproof of His servant, IF THOU RETURN, turning from his course of discontent with the ways of the Lord, which had almost brought him to the point of doubti...
The Prophet's Lamentation...
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...
IF THOU RETURN, THEN WILL I BRING THEE AGAIN, AND THOU SHALT STAND BEFORE ME: at the first reading of these words, one would take them to be a promise of God to restore this people to their former sta...
Jeremiah 15:19 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 return H7725 (H8799) back H7725 (H8686) stand H5975 ...
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...
_If thou shalt take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as My mouth._ THE PERSONAL FACTOR IN OUR THOUGHT OF GOD AND MAN If Jeremiah at the time he wrote these words had been asked our mod...
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...
1 Kings 17:1; 2 Corinthians 5:16; Acts 20:27; Exodus 4:12; Exodus 4:15
If thou — These are God's words to the prophet, rebuking his distrust in God, and promising him, that if he did return from his distrust in God's providence, he would restore him to the former favour...