GOD'S REPLY TO JEREMIAH'S INTERCESSORY PRAYER. (Jer. 15:1-21) Moses . . . Samuel--eminent in intercessions (Exo 32:11-12; Sa1 7:9; Psa 99:6). be toward--could not be favorably inclined toward them. out of my sight--Go…
1Me dijo Jehová: Si Moisés y Samuel se pusieran delante de mí, no estaría mi voluntad con este pueblo; échalos de mi presencia, y salgan.
2Y si te preguntaren: ¿A dónde saldremos? les dirás: Así ha dicho Jehová: El que a muerte, a muerte; el que a espada, a espada; el que a hambre, a hambre; y el que a cautiverio, a cautiverio.
3Y enviaré sobre ellos cuatro géneros de castigo, dice Jehová: espada para matar, y perros para despedazar, y aves del cielo y bestias de la tierra para devorar y destruir.
4Y los entregaré para terror a todos los reinos de la tierra, a causa de Manasés hijo de Ezequías, rey de Judá, por lo que hizo en Jerusalén.
5Porque ¿quién tendrá compasión de ti, oh Jerusalén? ¿Quién se entristecerá por tu causa, o quién vendrá a preguntar por tu paz?
6Tú me dejaste, dice Jehová; te volviste atrás; por tanto, yo extenderé sobre ti mi mano y te destruiré; estoy cansado de arrepentirme.
7Aunque los aventé con aventador hasta las puertas de la tierra, y dejé sin hijos a mi pueblo y lo desbaraté, no se volvieron de sus caminos.
8Sus viudas se me multiplicaron más que la arena del mar; traje contra ellos destruidor a mediodía sobre la madre y sobre los hijos; hice que de repente cayesen terrores sobre la ciudad.
9Languideció la que dio a luz siete; se llenó de dolor su alma, su sol se puso siendo aún de día; fue avergonzada y llena de confusión; y lo que de ella quede, lo entregaré a la espada delante de sus enemigos, dice Jehová.
10¡Ay de mí, madre mía, que me engendraste hombre de contienda y hombre de discordia para toda la tierra! Nunca he dado ni tomado en préstamo, y todos me maldicen.
11¡Sea así, oh Jehová, si no te he rogado por su bien, si no he suplicado ante ti en favor del enemigo en tiempo de aflicción y en época de angustia!
12¿Puede alguno quebrar el hierro, el hierro del norte y el bronce?
13Tus riquezas y tus tesoros entregaré a la rapiña sin ningún precio, por todos tus pecados, y en todo tu territorio.
14Y te haré servir a tus enemigos en tierra que no conoces; porque fuego se ha encendido en mi furor, y arderá sobre vosotros.
15Tú lo sabes, oh Jehová; acuérdate de mí, y visítame, y véngame de mis enemigos. No me reproches en la prolongación de tu enojo; sabes que por amor de ti sufro afrenta.
16Fueron halladas tus palabras, y yo las comí; y tu palabra me fue por gozo y por alegría de mi corazón; porque tu nombre se invocó sobre mí, oh Jehová Dios de los ejércitos.
17No me senté en compañía de burladores, ni me engreí a causa de tu profecía; me senté solo, porque me llenaste de indignación.
18¿Por qué fue perpetuo mi dolor, y mi herida desahuciada no admitió curación? ¿Serás para mí como cosa ilusoria, como aguas que no son estables?
19Por tanto, así dijo Jehová: Si te convirtieres, yo te restauraré, y delante de mí estarás; y si entresacares lo precioso de lo vil, serás como mi boca. Conviértanse ellos a ti, y tú no te conviertas a ellos.
20Y te pondré en este pueblo por muro fortificado de bronce, y pelearán contra ti, pero no te vencerán; porque yo estoy contigo para guardarte y para defenderte, dice Jehová.
21Y te libraré de la mano de los malos, y te redimiré de la mano de los fuertes.
JAMIESON-FAUSSET-BROWN BIBLE COMMENTARY
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I. death--deadly plague (Jer 18:21; Jer 43:11; Eze 5:2, Eze 5:12; Zac 11:9).
III. cause . . . to be removed-- (Deu 28:25; Eze 23:46). Rather, "I will give them up to vexation," I …
cause . . . to be removed-- (Deu 28:25; Eze 23:46). Rather, "I will give them up to vexation," I will cause them to wander so as nowhere to have repose [CALVIN]; (Ch2 29:8, "trouble;" Margin, "commotion").
because of Manasseh--He was now dead, but the effects of his sins still remained. How much evil one bad man can cause! The evil fruits remain even after he himself has received repentance and forgiveness. The people had followed his wicked example ever since; and it is implied that it was only through the long-suffering of God that the penal consequences had been suspended up to the present time (compare Kg1 14:16; Kg2 21:11; Kg2 23:26; Kg2 24:3-4).
IV
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IV. go aside . . . how thou doest--Who will turn aside (in passing by) to salute thee (to wish thee "…
go aside . . . how thou doest--Who will turn aside (in passing by) to salute thee (to wish thee "peace")?
V
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V. weary with repenting-- (Hos 13:14; Hos 11:8). I have so often repented of the evil that I threate…
weary with repenting-- (Hos 13:14; Hos 11:8). I have so often repented of the evil that I threatened (Jer 26:19; Exo 32:14; Ch1 21:15), and have spared them, without My forbearance moving them to repentance, that I will not again change My purpose (God speaking in condescension to human modes of thought), but will take vengeance on them now.
VI
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VI. fan--tribulation--from tribulum, a threshing instrument, which separates the chaff from the wheat…
fan--tribulation--from tribulum, a threshing instrument, which separates the chaff from the wheat (Mat 3:12).
gates of the land--that is, the extreme bounds of the land through which the entrance to and exit from it lie. MAURER translates, "I will fan," that is, cast them forth "to the gates of the land" (Nah 3:13). "In the gates"; English Version draws the image from a man cleaning corn with a fan; he stands at the gate of the threshing-floor in the open air, to remove the wheat from the chaff by means of the wind; so God threatens to remove Israel out of the bounds of the land [HOUBIGANT].
VII
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VII. Their widows--My people's (Jer 15:7).
Their widows--My people's (Jer 15:7).
have brought--prophetical past: I will bring.
mother of the young men--"mother" is collective; after the "widows," He naturally mentions bereavement of their sons ("young men"), brought on the "mothers" by "the spoiler"; it was owing to the number of men slain that the "widows" were so many [CALVIN]. Others take "mother," as in Sa2 20:19, of Jerusalem, the metropolis; "I have brought on them, against the 'mother,' a young spoiler," namely, Nebuchadnezzar, sent by his father, Nabopolassar, to repulse the Egyptian invaders (Kg2 23:29; Kg2 24:1), and occupy Judea. But Jer 15:7 shows the future, not the past, is referred to; and "widows" being literal, "mother" is probably so, too.
at noonday--the hottest part of the day, when military operations were usually suspended; thus it means unexpectedly, answering to the parallel, "suddenly"; openly, as others explain it, will not suit the parallelism (compare Psa 91:6).
it--English Version seems to understand by "it" the mother city, and by "him" the "spoiler"; thus "it" will be parallel to "city." Rather, "I will cause to fall upon them (the 'mothers' about to be bereft of their sons) suddenly anguish and terrors."
the city--rather, from a root "heat," anguish, or consternation. So the Septuagint.
VIII
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VIII. borne seven-- (Sa1 2:5). Seven being the perfect number indicates full fruitfulness.
borne seven-- (Sa1 2:5). Seven being the perfect number indicates full fruitfulness.
languisheth--because not even one is left of all her sons (Jer 15:8).
sun is gone down while . . . yet day--Fortune deserts her at the very height of her prosperity (Amo 8:9).
she . . . ashamed--The mothers (she being collective) are put to the shame of disappointed hopes through the loss of all their children.
IX
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IX. (Jer 20:14; Job 3:1, &c.). Jeremiah seems to have been of a peculiarly sensitive temperament; yet…
(Jer 20:14; Job 3:1, &c.). Jeremiah seems to have been of a peculiarly sensitive temperament; yet the Holy Spirit enabled him to deliver his message at the certain cost of having his sensitiveness wounded by the enmities of those whom his words offended.
man of strife--exposed to strifes on the part of "the whole earth" (Psa 80:6).
I have neither lent, &c.--proverbial for, "I have given no cause for strife against me."
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X. Verily--literally, "Shall it not be?" that is, "Surely it shall be."
Verily--literally, "Shall it not be?" that is, "Surely it shall be."
thy remnant--the final issue of thy life; thy life, which now seems to thee so sad, shall eventuate in prosperity [CALVIN]. They who think that they shall be the surviving remnant, whereas thou shalt perish, shall themselves fall, whereas thou shalt remain and be favored by the conquerors [JUNIUS], (Jer 40:4-5; Jer 39:11-12). The Keri reads, "I will set thee free (or as MAURER, 'I will establish thee') for good" (Jer 14:11; Ezr 8:22; Psa 119:122).
to entreat thee well--literally, "to meet thee"; so "to be placable, nay, of their own accord to anticipate in meeting thee with kindness" [CALVIN]. I prefer this translation as according with the event (Jer 39:11-12; Jer 40:4-5). GESENIUS, from Jer 7:16; Jer 27:18; Job 21:15, translates (not only will I relieve thee from the enemy's vexations, but) "I will make thine enemy (that now vexeth thee) apply to thee with prayers" (Jer 38:14; Jer 42:2-6).
XI
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XI. steel--rather, brass or copper, which mixed with "iron" (by the Chalybes near the Euxine Pontus, …
steel--rather, brass or copper, which mixed with "iron" (by the Chalybes near the Euxine Pontus, far north of Palestine), formed the hardest metal, like our steel. Can the Jews, hardy like common iron though they be, break the still hardier Chaldees of the north (Jer 1:14), who resemble the Chalybian iron hardened with copper? Certainly not [CALVIN]. HENDERSON translates. "Can one break iron, (even) the northern iron, and brass," on the ground that English Version makes ordinary iron not so hard as brass. But it is not brass, but a particular mixture of iron and brass, which is represented as harder than common iron, which was probably then of inferior texture, owing to ignorance of modern modes of preparation.
XII
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XII. Thy substance . . . sins--Judea's, not Jeremiah's.
Thy substance . . . sins--Judea's, not Jeremiah's.
without price--God casts His people away as a thing worth naught (Psa 44:12). So, on the contrary, Jehovah, when about to restore His people, says, He will give Egypt, &c., for their "ransom" (Isa 43:3).
even in all thy borders--joined with "Thy substance . . . treasures, as also with "all thy sins," their sin and punishment being commensurate (Jer 17:3).
XIII
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XIII. thee--MAURER supplies "them," namely, "thy treasures." EICHORN, needlessly, from Syriac and the S…
thee--MAURER supplies "them," namely, "thy treasures." EICHORN, needlessly, from Syriac and the Septuagint, reads, "I will make thee to serve thine enemies"; a reading doubtless interpolated from Jer 17:4.
fire-- (Deu 32:22).
XIV
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XIV. thou knowest--namely, my case; what wrongs my adversaries have done me (Jer 12:3).
thou knowest--namely, my case; what wrongs my adversaries have done me (Jer 12:3).
revenge me--(See on Jer 11:20). The prophet in this had regard to, not his own personal feelings of revenge, but the cause of God; he speaks by inspiration God's will against the ungodly. Contrast in this the law with the gospel (Luk 23:34; Act 7:60).
take me not away in thy long-suffering--By Thy long-suffering towards them, suffer them not meanwhile to take away my life.
for thy sake I have suffered rebuke--the very words of the antitype, Jesus Christ (Psa 69:7, Psa 69:22-28), which last compare with Jeremiah's prayer in the beginning of this verse.
XV
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XV. eat-- (Eze 2:8; Eze 3:1, Eze 3:3; Rev 10:9-10). As soon as Thy words were found by me, I eagerly …
eat-- (Eze 2:8; Eze 3:1, Eze 3:3; Rev 10:9-10). As soon as Thy words were found by me, I eagerly laid hold of and appropriated them. The Keri reads, "Thy word."
thy word . . . joy-- (Job 23:12; Psa 119:72, Psa 119:111; compare Mat 13:44).
called by thy name--I am Thine, Thy minister. So the antitype, Jesus Christ (Exo 23:21).
16
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16. My "rejoicing" (Jer 15:16) was not that of the profane mockers (Psa 1:1; Psa 26:4-5) at feasts. S…
My "rejoicing" (Jer 15:16) was not that of the profane mockers (Psa 1:1; Psa 26:4-5) at feasts. So far from having fellowship with these, he was expelled from society, and made to sit "alone," because of his faithful prophecies.
because of thy hand--that is, Thine inspiration (Isa 8:11; Eze 1:3; Eze 3:14).
filled me with indignation--So Jer 6:11, "full of the fury of the Lord"; so full was he of the subject (God's "indignation" against the ungodly) with which God had inspired him, as not to be able to contain himself from expressing it. The same comparison by contrast between the effect of inspiration, and that of wine, both taking a man out of himself, occurs (Act 2:13, Act 2:15, Act 2:18).
17
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17. (Jer 30:15). "Pain," namely, the perpetual persecution to which he was exposed, and his being lef…
(Jer 30:15). "Pain," namely, the perpetual persecution to which he was exposed, and his being left by God without consolation and "alone." Contrast his feeling here with that in Jer 15:16, when he enjoyed the full presence of God, and was inspired by His words. Therefore he utters words of his natural "infirmity" (so David, Psa 77:10) here; as before he spoke under the higher spiritual nature given him.
as a liar, and as--rather, "as a deceiving (river) . . . waters that are not sure (lasting)"; opposed to "tiring (perennial) waters" (Job 6:15). Streams that the thirsty traveller had calculated on being full in winter, but which disappoint him in his sorest need, having run dry in the heat of summer. Jehovah had promised Jeremiah protection from his enemies (Jer 1:18-19); his infirmity suggests that God had failed to do so.
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18. God's reply to Jeremiah.
God's reply to Jeremiah.
return . . . bring . . . again--Jeremiah, by his impatient language, had left his proper posture towards God; God saith, "If thou wilt return (to thy former patient discharge of thy prophetic function) I will bring thee back" to thy former position: in the Hebrew there is a play of words, "return . . . turn again" (Jer 8:4; Jer 4:1).
stand before me--minister acceptably to Me (Deu 10:8; Kg1 17:1; Kg1 18:15).
take . . . precious from . . . vile--image from metals: "If thou wilt separate what is precious in thee (the divine graces imparted) from what is vile (thy natural corruptions, impatience, and hasty words), thou shall be as My mouth": my mouthpiece (Exo 4:16).
return not thou unto them--Let not them lead you into their profane ways (as Jeremiah had spoken irreverently, Jer 15:18), but lead thou them to the ways of godliness (Jer 15:16-17). Eze 22:26 accords with the other interpretation, which, however, does not so well suit the context, "If thou wilt separate from the promiscuous mass the better ones, and lead them to conversion by faithful warnings," &c.
19
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19. The promise of Jer 1:18-19, in almost the same words, but with the addition, adapted to the prese…
The promise of Jer 1:18-19, in almost the same words, but with the addition, adapted to the present attacks of Jeremiah's formidable enemies, "I will deliver thee out of . . . wicked . . . redeem . . . terrible"; the repetition is in order to assure Jeremiah that God is the same now as when He first made the promise, in opposition to the prophet's irreverent accusation of unfaithfulness (Jer 15:18).
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Jeremiah — Capítulo 15
GOD'S REPLY TO JEREMIAH'S INTERCESSORY PRAYER. (Jer. 15:1-21) Moses . . . Samuel--eminent in intercessions (Exo 32:11-12; Sa1 7:9; Psa 99:6). be toward--could not be favorably inclined toward them. out of my sight--Go…
Texto — Reina-Valera 1960
1Me dijo Jehová: Si Moisés y Samuel se pusieran delante de mí, no estaría mi voluntad con este pueblo; échalos de mi presencia, y salgan.
2Y si te preguntaren: ¿A dónde saldremos? les dirás: Así ha dicho Jehová: El que a muerte, a muerte; el que a espada, a espada; el que a hambre, a hambre; y el que a cautiverio, a cautiverio.
3Y enviaré sobre ellos cuatro géneros de castigo, dice Jehová: espada para matar, y perros para despedazar, y aves del cielo y bestias de la tierra para devorar y destruir.
4Y los entregaré para terror a todos los reinos de la tierra, a causa de Manasés hijo de Ezequías, rey de Judá, por lo que hizo en Jerusalén.
5Porque ¿quién tendrá compasión de ti, oh Jerusalén? ¿Quién se entristecerá por tu causa, o quién vendrá a preguntar por tu paz?
6Tú me dejaste, dice Jehová; te volviste atrás; por tanto, yo extenderé sobre ti mi mano y te destruiré; estoy cansado de arrepentirme.
7Aunque los aventé con aventador hasta las puertas de la tierra, y dejé sin hijos a mi pueblo y lo desbaraté, no se volvieron de sus caminos.
8Sus viudas se me multiplicaron más que la arena del mar; traje contra ellos destruidor a mediodía sobre la madre y sobre los hijos; hice que de repente cayesen terrores sobre la ciudad.
9Languideció la que dio a luz siete; se llenó de dolor su alma, su sol se puso siendo aún de día; fue avergonzada y llena de confusión; y lo que de ella quede, lo entregaré a la espada delante de sus enemigos, dice Jehová.
10¡Ay de mí, madre mía, que me engendraste hombre de contienda y hombre de discordia para toda la tierra! Nunca he dado ni tomado en préstamo, y todos me maldicen.
11¡Sea así, oh Jehová, si no te he rogado por su bien, si no he suplicado ante ti en favor del enemigo en tiempo de aflicción y en época de angustia!
12¿Puede alguno quebrar el hierro, el hierro del norte y el bronce?
13Tus riquezas y tus tesoros entregaré a la rapiña sin ningún precio, por todos tus pecados, y en todo tu territorio.
14Y te haré servir a tus enemigos en tierra que no conoces; porque fuego se ha encendido en mi furor, y arderá sobre vosotros.
15Tú lo sabes, oh Jehová; acuérdate de mí, y visítame, y véngame de mis enemigos. No me reproches en la prolongación de tu enojo; sabes que por amor de ti sufro afrenta.
16Fueron halladas tus palabras, y yo las comí; y tu palabra me fue por gozo y por alegría de mi corazón; porque tu nombre se invocó sobre mí, oh Jehová Dios de los ejércitos.
17No me senté en compañía de burladores, ni me engreí a causa de tu profecía; me senté solo, porque me llenaste de indignación.
18¿Por qué fue perpetuo mi dolor, y mi herida desahuciada no admitió curación? ¿Serás para mí como cosa ilusoria, como aguas que no son estables?
19Por tanto, así dijo Jehová: Si te convirtieres, yo te restauraré, y delante de mí estarás; y si entresacares lo precioso de lo vil, serás como mi boca. Conviértanse ellos a ti, y tú no te conviertas a ellos.
20Y te pondré en este pueblo por muro fortificado de bronce, y pelearán contra ti, pero no te vencerán; porque yo estoy contigo para guardarte y para defenderte, dice Jehová.
21Y te libraré de la mano de los malos, y te redimiré de la mano de los fuertes.
JAMIESON-FAUSSET-BROWN BIBLE COMMENTARY
Versículo 2
I. death--deadly plague (Jer 18:21; Jer 43:11; Eze 5:2, Eze 5:12; Zac 11:9).
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II. appoint-- (Lev 26:16).
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III. cause . . . to be removed-- (Deu 28:25; Eze 23:46). Rather, "I will give them up to vexation," I …
Versículo 5
IV. go aside . . . how thou doest--Who will turn aside (in passing by) to salute thee (to wish thee "…
Versículo 6
V. weary with repenting-- (Hos 13:14; Hos 11:8). I have so often repented of the evil that I threate…
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VI. fan--tribulation--from tribulum, a threshing instrument, which separates the chaff from the wheat…
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VII. Their widows--My people's (Jer 15:7).
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VIII. borne seven-- (Sa1 2:5). Seven being the perfect number indicates full fruitfulness.
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IX. (Jer 20:14; Job 3:1, &c.). Jeremiah seems to have been of a peculiarly sensitive temperament; yet…
Versículo 11
X. Verily--literally, "Shall it not be?" that is, "Surely it shall be."
Versículo 12
XI. steel--rather, brass or copper, which mixed with "iron" (by the Chalybes near the Euxine Pontus, …
Versículo 13
XII. Thy substance . . . sins--Judea's, not Jeremiah's.
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XIII. thee--MAURER supplies "them," namely, "thy treasures." EICHORN, needlessly, from Syriac and the S…
Versículo 15
XIV. thou knowest--namely, my case; what wrongs my adversaries have done me (Jer 12:3).
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XV. eat-- (Eze 2:8; Eze 3:1, Eze 3:3; Rev 10:9-10). As soon as Thy words were found by me, I eagerly …
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16. My "rejoicing" (Jer 15:16) was not that of the profane mockers (Psa 1:1; Psa 26:4-5) at feasts. S…
Versículo 18
17. (Jer 30:15). "Pain," namely, the perpetual persecution to which he was exposed, and his being lef…
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18. God's reply to Jeremiah.
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19. The promise of Jer 1:18-19, in almost the same words, but with the addition, adapted to the prese…