Jeremiah 15:14

I will tell your enemies to force you to become their prisoners, and to take you to other lands that you do not even know about, and force you to become their slaves. That will happen because I am extremely angry with you; my being angry is like [SIM] a fire that will burn forever.”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.

In Context

13I will give all the valuable possessions of the people of Judah to their enemies, without them paying for it. Their valuable possessions will be the payment/reward that I will give them because of all the sins that you have committed throughout your country.

15Then I said, “Yahweh, you know what is happening to me. Please come and ◄help me/take care of me►. Punish those who are ◄persecuting me/causing me to suffer►. Please do not continue to be patient with them and do not allow me to die now. It is ◄for your sake/because I serve you► that I am suffering.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:25Yahweh will enable your enemies to defeat you; your soldiers will attack your enemies from one direction, but they will run away from your enemies in seven/many directions, and when the people of other nations see what is happening to you, they will say that it is horrible.

Deuteronomy 28:64“Yahweh will scatter you among many people-groups, all over the earth, and in those areas/places you will serve other gods that are made of wood or stone, gods which you and your ancestors have never known/worshiped.

Deuteronomy 32:22I will be very angry, and I will destroy them like a fire that will burn on the earth and all the way down to the place where dead people are [MET]; that fire will destroy the earth and everything that grows on it, and it will even burn what is down under the mountains.

Isaiah 42:25Therefore, he was extremely angry with us, and he caused our soldiers to be destroyed in battles. It was as though [MET] he lit a fire around us, but we did not understand what he was trying to tell us. His being angry with us was like a fire that would burn us up, but we did not pay attention [IDM].

Jeremiah 4:4Purify your inner beings and your minds for me. If you do not do that, my being angry with you [MTY] because of all the sins that you have committed will be like a fire that will be impossible to extinguish.”

Jeremiah 15:4Because of the wicked things that King Manasseh did in Jerusalem, I will cause people in all the kingdoms of the earth to be horrified about what will happen in Judah to my people.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 15:11-15

The Prophet's Complaint; The Prophet Assured of His Safety. ( b. c. 606.) 10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me. 11 The Lord said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction. 12 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel? 13 Thy substance and… Read the whole commentary →

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