Jeremiah 15:10-21 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 15:10-14

Jeremiah has now returned from his public work and retired into his closet; what passed between him and his God there we have an account of in these and the following verses, which he published afterwards, to affect the people with the weight and importance of his messages to them. Here is, I. The complaint which the prophet makes to God of the many discouragements he met with in his work, Jer. 15:10. 1. He met with a great deal of contradiction and opposition. He was a man of strife and... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 15:15-21

Here, as before, we have, I. The prophet's humble address to God, containing a representation both of his integrity and of the hardships he underwent notwithstanding. It is a matter of comfort to us that, whatever ails us, we have a God to go to, before whom we may spread our case and to whose omniscience we may appeal, as the prophet here, ?O Lord! thou knowest; thou knowest my sincerity, which men are resolved they will not acknowledge; thou knowest my distress, which men disdain to take... read more

John Gill

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

John Gill

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 15:16

Thy words were found, and I did eat them , The messages he was called to deliver unto others appeared to him to be of God, and they were as welcome to him as food is to a hungry man; he cheerfully received them, treasured them up in his memory, digested them in his mind, and carefully retained them. So the doctrines of the Gospel, which are the words of God, and not of men, when by searching and close application they are found in the Scriptures, and under the ministry of the word, they are... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 15:17

I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced ,.... With them, the mockers; or, "those that make merry" F18 משחקים "ludentium", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius; "jocantium", Vatablus; "hilaria agentium", Gataker. ; as the word is rendered in Jeremiah 30:19 , and so the Targum, "those that sing;' and dance and live jovially; with these the prophet did not associate himself; such levity being unsuitable to his character as a prophet, and to those grievous messages he... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 15:10-14

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 15:15-21

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

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

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

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

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

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 15:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 15:17

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