Jeremiah 15:18
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will thou indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?
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Job 6:15My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away,
Job 34:6Notwithstanding my right I am [accounted] a liar. My wound is incurable, [though I am] without transgression.
Psalms 13:1How long, O LORD? Will thou forget me forever? How long will thou hide thy face from me?
Jeremiah 14:3And their ranking men send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are put to shame and confounded, and cover their heads,
Jeremiah 20:7O LORD, thou have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. Thou are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughing-stock all the day; everyone mocks me.
Jeremiah 30:12For thus says LORD, Thy hurt is incurable, and thy wound grievous.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 15:16-21
The Prophet's Humble Appeal to God; God's Answer to Jeremiah's Address. ( b. c. 606.) 15 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. 16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts. 17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou… Read the whole commentary →