Geneva Bible Notes: Jeremiah 15

Jeremiah 15:1 ^! The Lord wolde heare no prayer for the Jewes.

Jeremiah 15:1 ^a Meaning, that if there were anie man liuing moued with so great zeale toward the people, as were these two, yet that he wolde not grante this request, forasmuche as he had determined the contrarie, {Ezek. 14, 14}.

Jeremiah 15:3 ^! But threatneth to destroye them with foure plagues.

Jeremiah 15:3 ^b The dogs, birdes & beastes shulde deuoure them, that were slaine.

Jeremiah 15:4 ^c The worde signifieth to runne to & fro for feare, and vnquietnes of conscience, as did Kain.

Jeremiah 15:4 ^d Not that the people was punished for the Kings sinne onely, but fot their owne sinnes also, because they consented to his wickednes, {2 King. 21, 9}.

Jeremiah 15:6 ^e That is, I wil not call backe my plagues, or spare thee anie more.

Jeremiah 15:7 ^f Meaning, the cities.

Jeremiah 15:8 ^g Because I had slaine their housbands.

Jeremiah 15:9 ^h She that had manie, lost all her children.

Jeremiah 15:9 ⁱ She was destroyed in the middes of her prosperitie.

Jeremiah 15:10 ^k These are the Prophets wordes, complaining of the obstinacie of the people, & that he was reserued to so wicked a time where in also he sheweth what is the condition of Gods ministers: to wit, to haue all the worlde against them, thogh thei giue none occasion.

Jeremiah 15:10 ^l Which is an occasion of contention and hatred.

Jeremiah 15:11 ^m In this perplexitie the Lord comforted me & said that my last dayes shulde be quiet: & by the enemie he meaneth here, Nebuzardian the captaine of Nebuchadnezzar, who gaue Jeremiah the choise ether to remaine in his countrey, or to go whether he wolde; or by the enemie he meaneth the Jewes, which shulde afterward knowe Jeremiahs fidelitie, and therefore fauour him.

Jeremiah 15:12 ⁿ As for the people thogh they semed strong as yron, yet shulde thei not be able to resist the hard yron of Babylon, but shuld be led captiues.

Jeremiah 15:13 ^/ Or, ransome.

Jeremiah 15:15 ^o He speaketh not this for desire of reuengeance, but wishing that God wolde deliuer his Church of them whome he knewe to be hardned and incorrigible.

Jeremiah 15:16 ^p I receiued them with as great joye as he that is affamished eateth meat.

Jeremiah 15:17 ^q I had nothing ado with the wicked contemners of thy worde, but lamented bitterly for thy plagues: shewing what the faithful shulde do when thei se tokens of Gods angre.

Jeremiah 15:18 ^r And hast not assisted my according to thy promes? wherein appeareth that in the Saints of God is imperfection of faith, which rough impaciencie is oft times assailed, as {Chap. 20, 7}

Jeremiah 15:19 ^x Conforme not thy self to their wickednes, but let them followe thy godlie example.

Jeremiah 15:19 ^u To wit, as my mouth hathe pronounced {Chap 1, 18} & as here followeth {vers 20}.

Jeremiah 15:19 ^s If thou forget these carnal considerations, & faithfully execute thy charge.

Jeremiah 15:19 ^t That is, seke to winne the good from the bad.

Jeremiah 15:20 ^y I wil arme there with an inuincible strength & constancie, so that all the powers of the worlde shal not ouercome thee.