I have neither lent, etc.] The Jews were forbidden to take interest from one another (Deuteronomy 23:20), and the money-lender accordingly was held in extreme disfavour. Jeremiah laments that his mission is constantly one of strife with his people.
Verse Jeremiah 15:10. _A MAN OF CONTENTION TO THE WHOLE EARTH!_] To the whole LAND, to all his countrymen; though he had done nothing to merit their displeasure....
Jeremiah vents his sorrow at the rejection of his prayer. In reading these and similar expostulations we feel that we have to do with a man who was the reluctant minister of a higher power, from where...
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...
LENT ON USURY. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 22:25). App-92....
_Woe is me, etc_.] Cp. Job 3:1 ff., also Savonarola's address to God in one of his sermons, "O Lord, whither hast thou led me? From my desire to save souls for Thee, I can no longer return to my rest....
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...
THAT THOU HAST BORNE ME A MAN OF STRIFE— The prophet here complains of the opposition he met with from his countrymen for speaking unwelcome truths, which had occasioned him as much uneasiness, as if...
II. PROPHETIC AGONY Jeremiah 15:10-21 Jeremiah suffered a great deal of mental anguish during his ministry. The rejection of his prophetic intercession on three successive occasions plunges Jeremiah t...
Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth cu...
WOE IS ME... — The abruptness of the transition suggests the thought that we have a distinct fragment which has been merged in the artificial continuity of the chapter. Possibly, as some have thought,...
אֹֽוי ־לִ֣י אִמִּ֔י כִּ֣י יְלִדְתִּ֗נִי אִ֥ישׁ...
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...
(k) Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither (l) lent on interest, nor have men lent to me on interest; [yet] every one...
_Strife. Jeremias was under continual persecution, (Menochius) yet ceased not to reprimand the wicked. (Haydock) --- Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit. (Cicero) --- Usury. Such people are exposed...
We have here the prophet mourning unmanfully. Jeremiah affords an instance, that he, like all others of Adam's race, partook of the common stock of corruption. Alas! how unsuitable and unbecoming is i...
The Prophet, when he saw that his labor availed nothing, or was not so fruitful as he wished, no doubt felt somewhat like a man, and shewed his own weakness. It must however be observed, that he was s...
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...
WOE IS ME, MY MOTHER, THAT THOU HAST BORN ME A MAN OF STRIFE,.... Not that the prophet was a quarrelsome and contentious man, but others quarrelled and contended with him, and that for no other reason...
Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; [yet] every one of them doth c...
_Wo is me, my mother_ The prophet here complains of the opposition he met with from his countrymen for speaking unwelcome truths. _Thou hast borne me a man of contention to the whole earth_ Or, _whole...
Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! that is, one with whom the whole world, all men with whom he came into contact, were anxious t...
The Prophet's Lamentation...
10-14 Jeremiah met with much contempt and reproach, when they ought to have blessed him, and God for him. It is a great and sufficient support to the people of God, that however troublesome their way...
The prophet in this verse cannot be excused from a great measure of passion and human infirmity; he almost curseth the day of his birth, denouncing himself a woeful, miserable man, to be born a man of...
Jeremiah 15:10 Woe H188 mother H517 borne H3205 (H8804) man H376 strife H7379 man H376 contention H4066 earth...
JEREMIAH TOO FEELS THAT HE HAS BEEN BORN TO AFFLICTION AND STRIFE BUT IS COMFORTED BY YHWH AS HE OUTLINES THE FUTURE THAT LIES AHEAD, INCLUDING THE INVASION FROM THE NORTH (JEREMIAH 15:10). The though...
JEREMIAH GRIEVES OVER HIS UNHAPPY SITUATION AND THE EFFECT THAT IT IS HAVING ON HIS MOTHER (JEREMIAH 15:10). Jeremiah 15:10 ‘Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, A man of strife and a man...
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...
_A man of strife._ MEN OF PROGRESS, MEN OF STRIFE I. Because of noncompliance with popular sins. Always some interested in doing wrong, and maintaining evil among the people. Those who will not conf...
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 Corinthians 4:9; 1 Kings 18:17; 1 Kings 18:18; 1 Kings 21:20;...
I have not — I have done them no wrong, yet they speak of me all manner of evil....