Jeremiah 15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 15:6

Thou hast forsaken me, saith the Lord ,.... His worship, as the Targum; and had set up idols, and idol worship; and this was the cause of the sword, pestilence, famine, and captivity, and of all the evils that befell them: thou art gone backward ; from the law of the Lord, and from his pure worship and service, from his ways and from his ordinances; and therefore it was but just they should go into captivity; hence it follows: therefore will I stretch out mine hand against thee, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 15:7

I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land ,.... Either of their own land, the land of Judea; and so the Septuagint version, "in the gates of my people"; alluding to the custom of winnowing corn in open places; and by fanning is meant the dispersion of the Jews, and their being carried captive out of their own land into other countries: or of the land of the enemy, into their cities, as the Targum paraphrases it; gates being put for them frequently; whither they should be scattered... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 15:8

Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas ,.... Their husbands being slain; not in the times of Ahaz, when a hundred and twenty thousand men were slain in one day in Judah, by Pekah the son of Remaliah, 2 Chronicles 28:6 , as Kimchi thinks; but in the times of Zedekiah, at the siege of Jerusalem, and the taking of it, and in the Babylonish captivity before predicted. The children of Israel were to be as the sand of the sea, and were very numerous; and here the widows are... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 15:9

She that hath borne seven languisheth ,.... Either the mother that has borne many children, seven being put for a large number, now being able to bear no more, and being bereaved of what she had, and who were her staff and support, and from whom she had her expectation, faints away, and dies through grief and trouble; or Jerusalem, which formerly abounded with young men, is now in a forlorn and destitute state; her children, the inhabitants of it, being slain with the sword, or dying of... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 15:10

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 than for his faithful discharge of his office, under which he ought to have been easy; but being a man of like passions with others, wishes he had never been born, than to meet with so much trouble; and seems to blame his mother for bearing him; or however looked upon himself to be a miserable... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 15:11

The Lord said ,.... In answer to the prophet's complaint: verily it shall be well with thy remnant : not with the remnant of his people, or those that should escape the threatened calamities; but the sense is, that it should be well with him in his latter end; the remainder of his days should be comfortable or be spent in peace and prosperity; and so the Targum, "if thine end shall not be for good.' The words are in the form of an oath, as Kimchi and Ben Melech observe; and the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 15:12

Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel? Can iron break iron, especially that which comes from the north, which was harder than the common iron; or steel, the hardest of all? though the Jews were hard as iron, they could not prevail against and overcome Jeremiah, who was made an iron pillar and brasen walls against them, Jeremiah 1:18 , and so these words are spoken for his comfort and encouragement: or they may respect the Jews and the Chaldeans; and the sense be, that the Jews,... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 15:13

Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price ,.... Not the prophet's substance and treasure; for it does not appear that he had any, at least to require so much notice; but the substance and treasure of the people of the Jews, to whom these words are directed; these the Lord threatened should be delivered into the hands of their enemies, and become a spoil and free booty to them, for which they should give nothing, and which should never be redeemed again: and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 15:14

And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies ,.... Not Jeremiah, but the Jews, to whom these words are continued. The meaning is, that they should go along with the Chaldeans out of their own land into theirs: into a land which thou knowest not ; the land of Babylon; and there is another reading of the words in the margin, "I will cause thee to serve thine enemies F15 והעדתי "et servire faciam". , in a land that thou knowest not"; which is followed by the Targum, Septuagint,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 15:15

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; and he knew them, and all their malicious designs against him: remember me ; with the favour which he bore to his own people, his covenant with him, his promises to him, and the word on which he had caused him to hope; because of his trials and troubles, he might seem to be forgotten by him: ... read more

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