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Jeremiah 17:15

in Jeremiah 17

Behold, they keep saying to me, “Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come now!”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of Jehovah? let it come now.

KJV

Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the Lord? let it come now.

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This verse in Jeremiah 17

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah · Written before 420.

(Verse 15) Look, they say to me: Where is the word of the Lord? Let it come. Those who do not believe in the future, speak to the Prophet: Where is the word of the Lord? Let us come: considering the dissimulation of judgment, thinking of delay.

This site's exposition

Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed

on Jeremiah 17:14-18

Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise belongs to the confessions running through chapters 11 to 20, Jeremiah turning from preaching to prayer when the mockery, Where is the word of the Lord? let it come now, grows unbearable. Henry reads the appeal I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee as Jeremiah reminding a God who alone knows it that the threats he carries were never his own choosing. Calvin reads the prayer for his persecutors' confounding, rather than his own, as grief permitted a man asking God to vindicate the word he was made to speak.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Where is the word of the Lord? - Where is the accomplishment of his threatenings? Thou hast said that the city and the temple should both be destroyed. No such events have yet taken place. But they did take place, and every tittle of the menace was strictly fulfilled.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

on Jeremiah 17:14-18

Prayer of the prophet for deliverance from the enemies whom he excited by his faithful denunciations. Heal . . . save--not only make me whole (as to the evils of soul as well as body which I am exposed to by contact with ungodly foes, Jer 15:18), but keep me so. my praise--He whom I have to praise for past favors, and therefore to whom alone I look for the time to come.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

for You are my praise I praise myself and boast with You, saying that You are my Savior.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Jeremiah 17:14:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

9 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • הִנֵּה־here!

    hineh-H2009 →843 times

  • הֵ֕מָּהthey

    hemahH1992 →553 times

  • אֹמְרִ֖ים[are] saying

    ʾomerimH559 →5305 times

  • אֵלָ֑יto me

    ʾelaiH413 →5510 times

  • אַיֵּ֥הwhere?

    ʾaiyehH346 →45 times

  • דְבַר־[is] [the] word of

    devar-H1697 →1440 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • יָ֥בוֹאlet it come

    yavo'H935 →2568 times

  • נָֽא׃please

    na'H4994 →404 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

9 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

2 Peter 3:4“Where is the promise of His coming?” they will ask. “Ever since our fathers fell asleep, everything continues as it has from the beginning of creation.”15 worksIsaiah 5:19to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!”6 worksEzekiel 12:22“Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel: ‘The days go by, and every vision fails’?4 worksJeremiah 20:7–8You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.3 worksEzekiel 12:27–28“Son of man, take note that the house of Israel is saying, ‘The vision that he sees is for many years from now; he prophesies about the distant future.’3 worksAmos 5:18Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.2 works
The other 3 cross-references, with their words ▾
2 Peter 3:3–4Most importantly, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.2 worksEzekiel 24:24‘Thus Ezekiel will be a sign for you; you will do everything that he has done. When this happens, you will know that I am the Lord GOD.’2 worksJeremiah 23:33“Now when this people or a prophet or priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the LORD?’ you are to say to them, ‘What burden? I will forsake you, declares the LORD.’2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each 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

    Amos 5:18

    Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.

    it leads to

    • Joel 1:15

      Alas for the day! For the Day of the LORD is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

    • Joel 2:1–2

      Blow the ram’s horn in Zion; sound the alarm on My holy mountain! Let all who dwell in the land tremble, for the Day of the LORD is coming; indeed, it is near—

    • Joel 2:31

      The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.

    • Jeremiah 30:7

      How awful that day will be! None will be like it! It is the time of Jacob’s distress, but he will be saved out of it.

    • Malachi 4:1

      “For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of…

  • Through

    Ezekiel 12:22

    “Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel: ‘The days go by, and every vision fails’?

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 18:2–3

      “What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge’?

    • Jeremiah 5:12–13

      They have lied about the LORD and said: “He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Isaiah 5:19

    to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!”

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 12:22

      “Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel: ‘The days go by, and every vision fails’?

Where this verse is studied

About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Jeremiah: the study guide →Read Jeremiah 17 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Calvin, Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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