Jeremiah 15:21
Truly, I will keep you safe from those wicked people, I will rescue you when you are seized by cruel people. That will happen because I, Yahweh, have said it.”
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Genesis 48:16The angel whom he sent has kept me from being harmed in any way. I pray that God will bless these boys. I pray that people will never forget about me and about Abraham and Isaac because of what God does for these boys. I pray that they will have many descendants who will live all over the earth.”
Psalms 37:40Yahweh helps them and saves them; he rescues them from being attacked/harmed by wicked people because they go to him to be protected [MET].
Isaiah 29:5But, suddenly your enemies will be blown away like dust; their armies will disappear like [SIM] chaff that is blown away by the wind. It will happen very suddenly.
Isaiah 49:24There is no one [RHQ] who can snatch valuable things from a soldier who has captured those things in a war; there is no one [RHQ] who can force a ◄tyrant/cruel man► to free the people whom he has captured.
Jeremiah 20:13Sing to Yahweh! Praise Yahweh! He rescues poor and needy people, from those [SYN] who are wicked.
Jeremiah 50:34But I am strong, and I will free them. I am the Commander of the armies of angels; I will defend my people and enable them to return to their land where they will have peace, but the people of Babylonia will not have peace.
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 →