Jeremiah 15:17

Loneliness Obedience Anger Friendship

¹⁵ O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.

¹⁶ Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.

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.

¹⁸ Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?

¹⁹ Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: I never sat with the band of revelers, nor did I celebrate with them. Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone, for You have filled me with indignation.
KJV: 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.
WEB: I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry and rejoice. I sat alone because of your hand, for you have filled me with indignation.
ASV: 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.
DARBY: 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.
BLB: I did not sit in the counsel of the mockers no rejoice; I sat alone because of Your hand, for You have filled me with indignation.

ÅB: Jeg har ikke sittet i de lystiges lag og jublet; grepet av din hånd har jeg sittet ensom; for du fylte meg med harme.
OTB: Jeg satt ikke i selskap med festfolk og feiret. Fordi din hånd var over meg, satt jeg alene, for du fylte meg med indignasjon.
B1930: Jeg har ikke sittet i de lystiges lag og jublet; grepet av din hånd har jeg sittet ensom; for du fylte mig med harme.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Lamentations 3:28
He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
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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.
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Psalms 26:4–5
I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
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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.
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2 Corinthians 6:17
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
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Jeremiah 13:17
But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD’s flock is carried away captive.
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Psalms 102:7
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
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Jeremiah 6:11
Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.
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