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Complete Jewish Bible

Jeremiah 15:17

I have never kept company with merrymakers, I could not celebrate; with your hand on me I sat by myself, for you filled me with indignation.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Company;   Fellowship;   Scofield Reference Index - Remnant;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God;   Scorning and Mocking;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Baruch;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jeremiah (2);   Mock;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Circus;   Didascalia;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I never sat with the band of revelers,and I did not celebrate with them.Because your hand was on me, I sat alone,for you filled me with indignation.
Hebrew Names Version
I didn't sit in the assembly of those who make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of your hand; for you have filled me with indignation.
King James Version
I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.
English Standard Version
I did not sit in the company of revelers, nor did I rejoice; I sat alone, because your hand was upon me, for you had filled me with indignation.
New American Standard Bible
I did not sit in a circle of revelers and celebrate. Because of Your hand upon me I sat alone, For You filled me with indignation.
New Century Version
I never sat with the crowd as they laughed and had fun. I sat by myself, because you were there, and you filled me with anger at the evil around me.
Amplified Bible
I did not sit with the group of those who celebrate, Nor did I rejoice; I sat alone because Your [powerful] hand was upon me, For You had filled me with indignation [at their sin].
World English Bible
I didn't sit in the assembly of those who make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of your hand; for you have filled me with indignation.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I sate not in the assembly of the mockers, neither did I reioyce, but sate alone because of thy plague: for thou hast filled me wt indignation.
Legacy Standard Bible
I did not sit in the circle of merrymakers,Nor did I exult.Because of Your hand upon me I sat alone,For You filled me with indignation.
Berean Standard Bible
I never sat with the band of revelers, and I did not celebrate with them. Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone, for You have filled me with indignation.
Contemporary English Version
I don't go to parties and have a good time. Instead, I keep to myself, because you have filled me with your anger.
Darby Translation
I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor exulted: I sat alone because of thy hand; for thou hast filled me with indignation.
Easy-to-Read Version
I never sat with the crowd as they laughed and had fun. I sat by myself because of your influence on me. You filled me with anger at the evil around me.
George Lamsa Translation
O LORD God of hosts, I did not sit in the assembly of the mockers, but I was afraid because of thy hand, and I sat alone; for thou hast filled me with indignation.
Good News Translation
I did not spend my time with other people, laughing and having a good time. In obedience to your orders I stayed by myself and was filled with anger.
Lexham English Bible
I sat not in the assembly of jokers, nor did I exult. Because of the presence of your hand I sat alone, for you filled me with indignation.
Literal Translation
I did not sit in the circle of merrymakers, nor exult. I sat alone because of Your hand; for You have filled me with indignation.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I dwell not amonge the scorners, nether is my delyte therin: but I dwell only in the feare of thy honde, for thou hast fylled me with bytternes.
American Standard Version
I sat not in the assembly of them that make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand; for thou hast filled me with indignation.
Bible in Basic English
I did not take my seat among the band of those who are glad, and I had no joy; I kept by myself because of your hand; for you have made me full of wrath.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I sat not in the assembly of them that make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of Thy hand; for Thou hast filled me with indignation.
King James Version (1611)
I sate not in the assembly of the mockers, nor reioyced: I sate alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I dwell not among the scorners, neither is my delight therin: but I dwell alone because of thy hande, for thou hast fylled me with bitternesse.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I have not sat in the assembly of them as they mocked, but I feared because of thy power: I sat alone, for I was filled with bitterness.
English Revised Version
I sat not in the assembly of them that make merry, nor rejoiced: I sat alone because of thy hand; for thou hast filled me with indignation.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y sat not in the counsel of pleieris, and Y hadde glorie for the face of thin hond; Y sat aloone, for thou fillidist me with bittirnesse.
Update Bible Version
I did not sit in the assembly of those that make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of your hand; for you have filled me with indignation.
Webster's Bible Translation
I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.
New English Translation
I did not spend my time in the company of other people, laughing and having a good time. I stayed to myself because I felt obligated to you and because I was filled with anger at what they had done.
New King James Version
I did not sit in the assembly of the mockers, Nor did I rejoice; I sat alone because of Your hand, For You have filled me with indignation.
New Living Translation
I never joined the people in their merry feasts. I sat alone because your hand was on me. I was filled with indignation at their sins.
New Life Bible
I did not sit with those who were having fun, and I was not full of joy. I sat alone because Your hand was upon me. For You had filled me with hate for their sin.
New Revised Standard
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.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I sat not in the circle of mockers, Nor became I uproarious, - Because of thy hand, by myself did I sit, For with indignation, hadst thou filled me.
Douay-Rheims Bible
I sat not in the assembly of jesters, nor did I make a boast of the presence of thy hand: I sat alone, because thou hast filled me with threats.
Revised Standard Version
I did not sit in the company of merrymakers, nor did I rejoice; I sat alone, because thy hand was upon me, for thou hadst filled me with indignation.
Young's Literal Translation
I have not sat in an assembly of deriders, Nor do I exult, because of thy hand, -- Alone I have sat, For [with] indignation Thou hast filled me.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
I did not sit in the circle of merrymakers, Nor did I exult. Because of Your hand upon me I sat alone, For You filled me with indignation.

Contextual Overview

15 Adonai , you know. Remember me, think of me, and take vengeance for me on my persecutors. Because you are patient, don't banish me; know that for your sake I suffer insults. 16 When I found your words, I devoured them; your words made me glad, they gave me joy; because, Adonai -Tzva'ot, you had me bear your name. 17 I have never kept company with merrymakers, I could not celebrate; with your hand on me I sat by myself, for you filled me with indignation. 18 Why is my pain unending, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you be for me like a deceptive vadi, which is only sometimes filled with water? 19 This is Adonai 's answer: "If you return — if I bring you back — you will stand before me. If you separate the precious from the base, you will be my spokesman. It will then be they who turn to you, not you who turn to them. 20 Toward this people I will make you a fortified wall of bronze — they will fight against you but not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and rescue you," says Adonai . 21 "I will free you from the grasp of the wicked and redeem you from the clutches of the ruthless."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sat not: Psalms 1:1, Psalms 26:4, Psalms 26:5, 2 Corinthians 6:17

sat alone: Jeremiah 13:17, Lamentations 3:28, Ezekiel 3:24, Ezekiel 3:25, Daniel 7:28

for: Jeremiah 1:10, Jeremiah 6:11, Jeremiah 20:8, Jeremiah 20:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 49:6 - secret 2 Chronicles 28:9 - because the Lord God Job 11:3 - mockest Psalms 137:1 - the rivers Proverbs 18:1 - intermeddleth Isaiah 28:22 - be ye Jeremiah 16:8 - General Lamentations 3:1 - the man Daniel 7:15 - was grieved Matthew 11:18 - John Ephesians 5:11 - no

Cross-References

Genesis 15:2
Avram replied, " Adonai , God, what good will your gifts be to me if I continue childless; and Eli‘ezer from Dammesek inherits my possessions?
Genesis 15:3
You haven't given me a child," Avram continued, "so someone born in my house will be my heir."
Genesis 15:18
That day Adonai made a covenant with Avram: "I have given this land to your descendants — from the Vadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River —
Genesis 15:19
the territory of the Keni, the K'nizi, the Kadmoni,
Deuteronomy 4:20
No, you Adonai has taken and brought out of the smelting furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people of inheritance for him, as you are today.
Judges 6:21
Then the angel of Adonai reached out with the stick he was holding, touched the meat and matzot, and fire shot up out of the rock and burned up the meat and matzot. Then the angel of Adonai disappeared before his eyes.
Judges 13:20
as the flame went up toward the sky from the altar, the angel of Adonai went up in the flame from the altar. When Manoach and his wife saw it, they fell to the ground on their faces.
2 Samuel 22:9
Smoke arose in his nostrils; and from his mouth, devouring fire, with coals blazing from it.
1 Chronicles 21:26
Then David built an altar to Adonai there and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. He called on Adonai , who answered him from heaven by fire on the altar for burnt offerings.
Isaiah 62:1
For Tziyon's sake I will not be silent, for Yerushalayim's sake I will not rest, until her vindication shines out brightly and her salvation like a blazing torch.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced,.... With them, the mockers; or, "those that make merry" r; as the word is rendered in Jeremiah 30:19, and so the Targum,

"those that sing;''

and dance and live jovially; with these the prophet did not associate himself; such levity being unsuitable to his character as a prophet, and to those grievous messages he was charged with; and though he had joy, it was of another kind; it was not carnal, but spiritual; not outward, but inward; and what arose from the word of the Lord, being found and eaten by him. Moreover, there were some things which he was obliged by his office to deliver, that were very distressing to him, and made him very melancholy; so that he shunned all company and diversion, which might have been lawfully enjoyed: for this is not to be understood of the assembly or council of the wicked governors of the nation, and much less of the refuse of the people, that mocked at the word of God, and scoffed at the prophets and people of God; but of Jeremiah's friends and acquaintance, that met and made merry together; with whom he could not join, because of the sorrowful case in which he was, on account of the people he was sent unto:

I sat alone, because of thine hand; not because he was obliged to it, being deserted by men, but of choice; he withdrew from company, kept himself retired at home in his own house, there meditating upon the word of God, and mourning over the case of his people; and this he did, because the afflicting hand of God was upon him, or because the hand and spirit of prophecy was upon him, and he was charged to denounce very grievous things against the people; and because the hand of divine power and authority was over him, to which he ought to be subject, and was ready to obey:

for thou hast filled me with indignation; either with the indignation of the people against him, because of his prophecies; or with indignation against them, because of their sins; or with denunciations of wrath he was to deliver to them; and so the Targum,

"for thou hast filled me with a prophecy of cursing.''

r משחקים "ludentium", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius; "jocantium", Vatablus; "hilaria agentium", Gataker.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This is the prayer of a man in bitter grief, whose human nature cannot at present submit to the divine will. God’s long-suffering toward the wicked seemed to the prophet to be the abandonment of himself to death; justice itself required that one who was suffering contumely for God’s sake should be delivered.

Rebuke - i. e., reproach, contumely.

Jeremiah 15:16

Thy words were found - Jeremiah’s summons to the prophetic office had not been expected or sought for by him.

I did eat them - i. e., I received them with joy. This eating of the divine words expresses also the close union between that which came from God and the prophet’s own being.

I am called by thy name - i. e., I am consecrated to Thy service, am ordained to be Thy prophet.

Jeremiah 15:17

Rather, “I sat not in the assembly of the laughers, and was merry.” From the time God’s words came to Jeremiah he abstained from things innocent, and a gravity came over him beyond his years.

I sat alone because of thy hand - As a person consecrated to God he would also be “separated.” See Jeremiah 1:5; compare Acts 13:2.

With indignation - The prophet thus taught of God sees the sins of the people as offences against God, and as involving the ruin of His Church.

Jeremiah 15:18

Why is my pain perpetual - i. e., Are all my labors to be in vain?

As a liar ... - Really, “as a deceitful brook,” a brook which flows only in the winter, the opposite of the “perennial stream” of Amos 5:24. Jeremiah had expected that there would be a perpetual interference of Providence in his behalf, instead whereof things seemed to take only their natural course.


 
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