Jeremiah 15:17
I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry and rejoice. I sat alone because of your hand, for you have filled me with indignation.
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Psalms 1:1Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
Psalms 102:7I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.
Jeremiah 6:11Therefore I am full of the LORD’s wrath. I am weary with holding it in. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife will be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.
Jeremiah 16:8“You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.”
Lamentations 3:28Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.
Daniel 7:28“Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts troubled me greatly, and my face was changed in me; but I kept the matter in my heart.”
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 →