(11-14) Promise of help, promise of exile. Jeremiah 17 Commentary | Confidence in Personal Uprightness. Jeremiah 15:17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers.
It will be a comfort to God's ministers, when men despise them, if … Jeremiah 15 Commentary | Intercession is Fine In other words, as I mentioned at the end of Jeremiah 14, it’s not as if there’s something deficient in Jeremiah’s ministry of intercession for his people.
Send them away from my presence! Jeremiah 15:17: Jeremiah 15: Jeremiah 15:19. — Like the scoffers, mentioned by St. Peter, 2 Peter 3:4, saying, Where is the promise of his coming? Christians delight not in godless company It is better and safer to ride alone than to have a thief’s company; and such is a wicked man, who will rob thee of precious time, if he do thee no more mischief. Why has my pain been perpetual And my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? 15:15-21 It is matter of comfort that we have a God, to whose knowledge of all things we may appeal. Behold, they say unto me — Scoffing at me, as if I had denounced threatenings in thy name, without any order or direction from thee: Where is the word of the Lord? Jeremiah pleads with God for mercy and relief against his enemies, persecutors, and slanderers. Then in Jeremiah 17:16, the prophet calls the Lord’s attention to the fact that he’s been trying his best both to love God and to love his neighbors. Jeremiah 14 Jeremiah 18 Jeremiah 15-17 New International Version (NIV) 15 Then the Lord said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel were to stand before me, my heart would not go out to this people. Jeremiah 15-17. Let them go! Will You indeed be to me like a deceptive stream With water that is unreliable? Jeremiah 17:15-18. Commentary on Jeremiah 15:15-21 (Read Jeremiah 15:15-21) 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. The LORD said: “Surely it will be well with your remnant; …