Jeremiah 15:18

So, ◄why do you allow me to continue to suffer?/I do not understand why you allow me to continue to suffer.► [RHQ] It seems that [RHQ] my wounds cannot be healed. Sometimes you help me, sometimes you do not help me. It seems that you are as undependable as a brook that has water in it only during certain seasons; you are like a spring that has dried up.”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?

In Context

17When the people were carousing together, I never joined them; I sat alone, because you [MTY] are the one who controls what I do. I was very angry with those people because of their sins.

19Then Yahweh replied, “If you begin again to trust in me, I will restore you, in order that you can continue to serve me. If you proclaim good/valuable messages and not worthless ones, you will continue to be the one who speaks what I tell you to say. You must cause the people to pay attention to what you say; you must not pay attention to what they say.

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Cross References

Job 6:15But you, my friends, are not dependable. You are like streams: They spill over their banks in the spring

Job 34:6Even though I have always done what is right, he is lying about me. Even though I have not done what is wrong, he has caused me to suffer, and I will certainly die.’

Psalms 13:1Yahweh, how long will you continue to forget about me [RHQ]? Will you hide yourself [SYN] from me forever?

Jeremiah 14:3The rich people send their servants to wells to get water, but all the wells are dry. The servants return with empty pitchers; they cover their heads because they are ashamed and humiliated/disappointed and sad.

Jeremiah 20:7One day I said this to Yahweh: “Yahweh, when you chose me to be a prophet,you deceived me, and I allowed you to deceive me. You insisted that I become a prophet and you are stronger than I am. And now everyone [HYP] ridicules me. They make fun of me all the day.

Jeremiah 30:12Yahweh also says this: “ You have ◄suffered very much/endured many disasters►; it is as though you have a terrible wound that cannot be cured.

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 →

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