Jeremiah 15:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.

Jeremiah 15:17 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lamentations 3:28
He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
Psalms 1:1
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
Psalms 26:4-5
I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers. …
Ezekiel 3:24-25
Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house. …
Psalms 102:7
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.

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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 15-21)

Here, as before, we have, I. The prophet’s humble address to God, containing a representation both of his integrity and of the hardships he underwent notwithstanding. It is a matter of comfort to us that, whatever ails us, we have a God to go to, before whom we may spread our case and to whose omniscience we may appeal, as the prophet here, “ O Lord! thou knowest; thou knowest my sincerity, which…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. My “rejoicing” (Jr 15:16) was not that of the profane mockers (Psa 1:1; 26:4, 5) at feasts. So far from having fellowship with these, he was expelled from society, and made to sit “alone,” because of his faithful prophecies. because of thy hand--that is, Thine inspiration (Is 8:11; Eze 1:3; 3:14). filled me with indignation--So Jr 6:11, “full of the fury of the Lord”; so full was he of the sub…