Verse Jeremiah 15:15. O Lord - remember me, and visit me] Let me not be carried away into captivity; and it does not appear that he had ever been taken to Babylon. After the capture of the city he went into Egypt; and either died there, or was put to death by his countrymen.
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...
REVENGE. avenge. REBUKE. reproach....
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....
_longsuffering_ mercy towards my enemies....
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...
O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke. THOU KNOWEST - namely, my c...
1-9. The coming woes described....
O LORD, THOU KNOWEST... — The prophet continues in the bitterness of his spirit the complaint that had begun in Jeremiah 15:10. The words remind us of the imprecations of the so-called vindictive psal...
אַתָּ֧ה יָדַ֣עְתָּ יְהוָ֗ה זָכְרֵ֤נִי וּ פָקְדֵ֨נִי֙...
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...
O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my (o) persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke. (o) He does not speak this...
_Patience. That is, let not thy patience and long suffering, which thou usest towards sinners, keep thee from making haste to my assistance. (Challoner) --- He is actuated by a zeal for God's glory. ...
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 again turns to God, to shew that he had to do with the deaf. This breaking off in the Prophet’s discourse has much more force than if he had pursued regularly his subject. Had he spoken ca...
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...
O LORD, THOU KNOWEST,.... All persons and things; he knew the prophet and his heart, and all that was in it; his innocence and integrity; all his afflictions, and what he met with from his enemies; an...
O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke. Ver. 15. _O Lord, thou knowest...
_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...
O Lord, Thou knowest, thus Jeremiah now presents his appeal to the Lord; REMEMBER ME AND VISIT ME, in kindness and mercy, AND REVENGE ME OF MY PERSECUTORS, carrying out His revenge upon them; TAKE 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...
O LORD, THOU KNOWEST; either thou knowest my sincerity, how faithfully I have revealed thy will; so PSALMS 139:1,23; or thou knowest my sufferings, how wickedly they deal with me; or thou knowest what...
Jeremiah 15:15 LORD H3068 know H3045 (H8804) Remember H2142 (H8798) visit H6485 (H8798) vengeance H5358 ...
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...
_Remember me and visit me._ THE DESIRE TO BE REMEMBERED Jeremiah desires many things; but the thing he asks first, as including all the rest, is that God would not let him drop out of sight and thou...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 15:15 YOU KNOW. God has seen Jeremiah’s suffering. TAKE ME NOT AWAY. Jeremiah asks to be spared when death strikes....
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 Peter 4:14; 2 Corinthians 5:11; 2 Timothy 4:14; Isaiah 38:3;...
Thou knowest — My sincerity, or my sufferings. Visit me — With thy love....