Jeremiah 15:1

Then said Yahweh unto me, Though Moses and Samuel should stand before me, My soul could not be toward this people,—Send them away from before me And let them go forth.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

In Context

2And it shall come to pass when they say unto thee Whither shall we go? Then shalt, thou say unto them, Thus saith Yahweh—Such as are for death, to death, and Such as are for the sword, to the sword, and Such as are for famine, to the famine, and Such as are for captivity, to captivity.

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Cross References

Genesis 19:27And Abraham gat up early in the morning, unto the place where he had stood before Yahweh;

Numbers 14:13Then said Moses unto Yahweh,—So shall the Egyptians hear, For thou hast brought up. in thy might, this people out of their midst;

1 Samuel 7:9So Samuel took one sucking lamb, and offered it up, as an entire ascending-sacrifice unto Yahweh,—and Samuel made outcry unto Yahweh, for Israel, and Yahweh answered him.

2 Kings 17:20So Yahweh rejected all the seed of Israel, and humiliated them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers,—until he had cast them out from his presence;

Psalms 106:23Then would he have bidden to destroy them,—had not Moses his chosen, stood in the breach before him, To turn back his wrath from destroying.

Jeremiah 7:15And will cast you out from before me,—Just as I have cast out All your brethren, All the seed of Ephraim.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 15:1

When we left the prophet, in the close of the foregoing chapter, so pathetically poring out his prayers before God, we had reason to hope that in this chapter we should find God reconciled to the land and the prophet brought into a quiet composed frame; but, to our great surprise, we find it much otherwise as to both. I. Notwithstanding the prophet's prayers, God here ratifies the sentence given against the people, and abandons them to ruin turning a deaf ear to all the intercessions made for them, ver. 1-9 . II.… Read the whole commentary →

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