Jeremiah 15:6
in Jeremiah 15You have forsaken Me, declares the LORD. You have turned your back. So I will stretch out My hand against you and I will destroy you; I am weary of showing compassion.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Thou hast rejected me, saith Jehovah, thou art gone backward: therefore have I stretched out my hand against thee, and destroyed thee; I am weary with repenting.
KJV
Thou hast forsaken me, saith the Lord, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
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This verse in Jeremiah 15
Commentary
3 notes on this verse(Verse 6.) You have forsaken me, says the Lord: you have gone backward. The reason is given why no one has pity on Jerusalem, nor is she grieved for; nor is she beseeched for the sake of her peace: which, according to the Apostle (Philippians 3), should forget the things that are behind and extend oneself to the things that are before, is on the contrary turned backward, and desires the fleshpots of Egypt.
This site's exposition
For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem?
on Jeremiah 15:5-9
The question who shall have pity, who shall bemoan thee, pictures a city so friendless in judgment that no one even turns aside to ask how she fares. Keil reads I am weary with repenting as bold covenant language, not a change in the Lord's own character but a description of how many times mercy had already been extended and refused before this final word. The widow count above the sand of the seas and the mother of the young men struck at noonday describe a population loss so total that ordinary mourning customs, a spoiler expected under cover of night, are overturned; this horror comes in daylight.
The record, by era
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
I am weary with repenting - With repeatedly changing my purpose. I have often, after purposing to punish, showed them mercy. I will do it no longer; it is useless. I took them often at their promise, and in every instance they have failed.
The words behind it
14 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אַ֣תְּ | ʾat | you | H859 → | 1094 times |
| נָטַ֥שְׁתְּ | natasht | you abandoned | H5203 → | 40 times |
| אֹתִ֛י | ʾoti | <obj.> me | H853 → | 10935 times |
| נְאֻם־ | neum- | [the] utterance of | H5002 → | 376 times |
| יְהוָ֖ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אָח֣וֹר | ʾachor | backwards | H268 → | 41 times |
| תֵּלֵ֑כִי | telekhi | you go | H1980 → | 1546 times |
| וָאַ֨ט | vaat | and I have stretched out | H5186 → | 214 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| יָדִ֤י | yadi | hand my | H3027 → | 1618 times |
| עָלַ֙יִךְ֙ | ʾalayikh | on you | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| וָֽאַשְׁחִיתֵ֔ךְ | vaashchitekh | and I have destroyed you | H7843 → | 146 times |
| נִלְאֵ֖יתִי | nileiti | I had wearied myself | H3811 → | 19 times |
| הִנָּחֵֽם׃ | hinachem | to relent | H5162 → | 108 times |
אַ֣תְּyou
ʾatH859 →1094 times
נָטַ֥שְׁתְּyou abandoned
natashtH5203 →40 times
אֹתִ֛י<obj.> me
ʾotiH853 →10935 times
נְאֻם־[the] utterance of
neum-H5002 →376 times
יְהוָ֖הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
אָח֣וֹרbackwards
ʾachorH268 →41 times
תֵּלֵ֑כִיyou go
telekhiH1980 →1546 times
וָאַ֨טand I have stretched out
vaatH5186 →214 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
יָדִ֤יhand my
yadiH3027 →1618 times
עָלַ֙יִךְ֙on you
ʾalayikhH5921 →5755 times
וָֽאַשְׁחִיתֵ֔ךְand I have destroyed you
vaashchitekhH7843 →146 times
נִלְאֵ֖יתִיI had wearied myself
nileitiH3811 →19 times
הִנָּחֵֽם׃to relent
hinachemH5162 →108 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Hosea 11:7My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call to the Most High, He will by no means exalt them.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 8:5
Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.
Reached by 3 separate paths from here.
- Jeremiah 8:5
Through
Zechariah 7:11But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.
it leads to
- Nehemiah 9:29
You admonished them to turn back to Your law, but they were arrogant and disobeyed Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances, by which a man will live if he practices them. They stubbornly…
- Nehemiah 9:29
Through
Jeremiah 7:24Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
it leads to
- Psalms 81:11–12
But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.
- Deuteronomy 29:19
because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This…
- Jeremiah 7:26
Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.
- Psalms 81:11–12
Through
Isaiah 1:4Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on…
it leads to
- Isaiah 5:24
Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected…
- Jeremiah 2:17
Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?
- Jeremiah 2:13
“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
- Isaiah 5:24
About Jeremiah
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.