Jeremiah 15:20

And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD. I WILL MAKE THEE UNTO THIS PEOPLE A FENCED BRASEN WALL ... - the promise of Jeremiah 1:18, in almost the same words, but with the addition, adapted to the present attacks of Jeremiah's formidable enemies, "I will deliver thee out of the hands of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible." The repetition is in order to assure Jeremiah that God is the same now as when He first made the promise, in opposition to the prophet's irreverent accusation of unfaithfulness (). Remarks: (1) One bad man holding an influential position...

As Jeremiah might have objected and said, that the burden was too heavy for him, if he only attempted to break down the contumacy of the people, for he was alone, and we have seen how great was the ferocity and also the cruelty of his adversaries, — as he might have shunned his commission, it being too much for his strength, hence God comes to his aid and bids him to take courage, for he was fortified by a help from heaven, _I have set thee, _he says, _for a brazen fortified wall to this people _The word for “fortified” is from בצר, _betsar; _were it בצרה _betsare, _derived from צור _tsur, _to besiege, it would much better suit this place. I know not whether the passage has been corrupted: however, I will not depart from the common reading. As then interpreters agree in this, I will change nothing; and indeed the difference is not very material....

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 will be a comfort to God's ministers, when men despise them, if they have the testimony of their own consciences. But he complains, that he found little pleasure in his work. Some good people lose much of the pleasantness of religion by the fretfulness and uneasiness of their natural temper, which they indulge. The Lord called the prophet to cease from his distrust, and to return to his work. If he attended thereto, he might be assured the Lord would deliver him from his enemies. Those who are with God, and faithful to him, he will deliver from trouble or carry through it. Many things appear frightful, which do not at all hurt a real believer in Christ....

Verse Jeremiah 15:20. _I WILL MAKE THEE - A FENCED BRAZEN WALL_] While thou art faithful to me, none of them shall be able to prevail against thee....

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; there is no allusion to any popular view of the intercession of saints (see my note on Isaiah 63:16). If even a Moses or a Samuel would intercede in vain, the ease of the Judahites must indeed be desperate. For these were the nearest of all the prophets to Jehovah, and repeatedly prayed their people out of grievous calamity (comp. Psalms 99:6). Jeremiah had alr

AND I WILL MAKE THEE UNTO THIS PEOPLE A FENCED BRASEN WALL,.... As he had promised him, when he first called him to his office, Jeremiah 1:18, and so would not be as a liar to him: AND THEY SHALL FIGHT AGAINST THEE; by words and blows, by menaces and imprisonment: BUT THEY SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST THEE; so as to cause him to call in his words, and contradict his prophecies; or so as to take away his life: FOR I AM WITH THEE, TO SAVE THEE, AND DELIVER THEE, SAITH THE LORD; the presence of God with his ministers is sufficient to save and deliver them out of all their troubles, and to protect and defend them against all their enemies; see Matthew 28:20....

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 now answered and the Lord tells Jeremiah that if Moses and Samuel, these two great men of intercessory prayer, were pleading, judgment would not be averted. What is in store for those who are appointed to death, for the sword, for the famine, for captivity, will be accomplished. There is no escape. They will be removed among all kingdoms on account of Manasseh's great sin 2 Kings 21:11. The terrors of jud

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 rightly placed after Jeremiah 14:1 to Jeremiah 15:9; but it would suit many other occasions of his life. On the great importance of this and similar passages, both for a true conception of Jeremiah's personality, and for his special contribution to _religion, see_ Introduction, § 3. The present passage is interrupted by the irrelevant verses, Jeremiah 15:13 f., which occur again, more correctly and in their proper place, in Jeremiah 17

I WILL MAKE THEE, &C. Compare Jeremiah 1:18; Jeremiah 1:19; Jeremiah 6:27, DELIVER. rescue. Not the same word as in Jeremiah 15:9....

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 of Jehoiakim's reign is a fitting one to suggest. Jeremiah 15:13 are almost certainly to be rejected, while 11 and 12 need either drastic emendation or omission. Gi. considers that 11 14 have been inserted here from another context. They are also unrhythmical. We may subdivide as follows. (i) Jeremiah 15:10. Alas, that I was ever born to be assailed by all men. I am subjected to revilings, as though I were a usurer or a defaulting debtor. Jehovah indeed promised me support in evil times, and that my