'Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people' (15:1): the two great intercessors named, and the door still shut, because of what Manasseh did in Jerusalem.

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'Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people' (15:1): the two great intercessors named, and the door still shut, because of what Manasseh did in Jerusalem. Then Jeremiah turns inward: 'Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife,' a man neither lending nor borrowing yet cursed by everyone. His joy and his wound are the same thing: 'Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy words were unto me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart' (15:16). God answers with a condition and a promise: if thou return, I will bring thee again; I will make thee a fortified brazen wall.

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.

Context

Prophecy · Jeremiah — Jeremiah overview

A. 1–9 Though Moses and Samuel Stood Before Me
B. 10–14 Woe Is Me, My Mother, That Thou Hast Borne Me
C. 15–21 Thy Words Were Found and I Did Eat Them — a Brazen Wall

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Jeremiah 141 verse
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Jeremiah 431 verse
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Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.