Login Go Premium

Jeremiah 15:10-21

Read this passage and open each verse for the full verse feed and commentary tools.

10Woe to me, my mother, that you have given birth to me

As a man of strife and a man of contention to all the land!

I have not lent, nor have people lent money to me,

Yet everyone curses me.

11The Lord said, “I will certainly set you free for purposes of good;

I will certainly make the enemy plead with you

In a time of disaster and a time of distress.

12“Can anyone smash iron,

Iron from the north, or bronze?

13“I will give your wealth and your treasures

As plunder without cost,

For all your sins

And within all your borders.

14“Then I will make your enemies bring your possessions

Into a land that you do not know;

For a fire has been kindled in My anger,

And it will burn upon you.”

15You know, Lord;

Remember me, take notice of me,

And take vengeance for me on my persecutors.

Do not, in view of Your patience, take me away;

Know that for Your sake I endure reproach.

16Your words were found and I ate them,

And Your words became a joy to me and the delight of my heart;

For I have been called by Your name,

Lord God of armies.

17I 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.

18Why has my pain been endless

And my wound incurable, refusing to be healed?

Will You indeed be to me like a deceptive stream

With water that is unreliable?

19Therefore, this is what the Lord says:

“If you return, then I will restore you—

You will stand before Me;

And if you extract the precious from the worthless,

You will become My spokesman.

They, for their part, may turn to you,

But as for you, you are not to turn to them.

20“Then I will make you to this people

A fortified wall of bronze;

And though they fight against you,

They will not prevail over you;

For I am with you to save you

And rescue you,” declares the Lord.

21“So I will rescue you from the hand of the wicked,

And I will redeem you from the grasp of the violent.”