Jeremiah 15
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Jeremiah 15
Punishment Is Inevitable
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Ex 32.11, 12; 1 Sam 7.9; 12.23; 2 Kings 17.20; Jer 7.15; 10.20; Ezek 14.14, 20 Then the Lord said to me: Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go! 2#Jer 43.11; Ezek 5.2, 12; Zech 11.9And when they say to you, “Where shall we go?” you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord:
Those destined for pestilence, to pestilence,
and those destined for the sword, to the sword;
those destined for famine, to famine,
and those destined for captivity, to captivity.
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Lev 26.16; Deut 28.26; 1 Kings 21.23, 24; Jer 7.33 And I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, says the Lord: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and the wild animals of the earth to devour and destroy. 4#Deut 28.25; 2 Kings 21.11ff; 23.26I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what King Manasseh son of Hezekiah of Judah did in Jerusalem.
5Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem,
or who will bemoan you?
Who will turn aside
to ask about your welfare?
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Jer 6.11, 12, 19; 7.16, 24 You have rejected me, says the Lord;
you are going backward,
so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you—
I am weary of relenting.
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Jer 5.3; 18.21; 51.2 I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork
in the gates of the land;
I have bereaved them; I have destroyed my people;
they did not turn from their ways.
8Their widows became more numerous
than the sand of the seas;
I have brought against the mothers of youths
a destroyer at noonday;
I have made anguish and terror
fall upon her suddenly.
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1 Sam 2.5; Isa 47.9; Jer 6.4; 21.7; 50.12; Am 8.9 She who bore seven has languished;
she has swooned away;
her sun went down while it was yet day;
she has been shamed and disgraced.
And the rest of them I will give to the sword
before their enemies, says the Lord.
Jeremiah Complains Again and Is Reassured
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Deut 23.19; Job 3.1; Jer 20.14 Woe is me, my mother, that you ever bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me. 11#Isa 41.10; Jer 39.11, 12; 40.4, 5The Lord said: Surely I have intervened in your life#15.11 Meaning of Heb uncertain for good; surely I have brought enemies upon you#15.11 Meaning of Heb uncertain in a time of trouble and in a time of distress. 12Can one break iron, iron from the north, and bronze?
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Ps 44.12; Isa 52.3, 5; Jer 17.3 Your wealth and your treasures I will give as plunder, without price, for all your sins, throughout all your territory. 14#Deut 32.22; Jer 16.13; 17.4I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn against you.
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Ps 69.7–9; Jer 12.3; 20.12 O Lord, you know;
remember me and visit me,
and bring down retribution for me on my persecutors.
In your forbearance do not take me away;
know that on your account I suffer insult.
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Ps 119.72; Jer 14.9; Ezek 3.1–3 Your words were found, and I ate them,
and your words became to me a joy
and the delight of my heart,
for I am called by your name,
O Lord, God of hosts.
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Jer 16.8; Ezek 3.24, 25 I did not sit in the company of merrymakers,
nor did I rejoice;
under the weight of your hand I sat alone,
for you had filled me with indignation.
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Jer 14.3; 30.15; Mic 1.9 Why is my pain unceasing,
my wound incurable,
refusing to be healed?
Truly, you are to me like a deceitful brook,
like waters that fail.
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Jer 4.1; Ezek 22.26 Therefore thus says the Lord:
If you turn back, I will take you back,
and you shall stand before me.
If you utter what is precious and not what is worthless,
you shall serve as my mouth.
It is they who will turn to you,
not you who will turn to them.
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Isa 41.10; Jer 1.18, 19; 20.11 And I will make you to this people
a fortified wall of bronze;
they will fight against you,
but they shall not prevail over you,
for I am with you
to save you and deliver you, says the Lord.
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Jer 20.13; 31.11 I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked
and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless.
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