Jeremiah 15:18

Jeremiah 15:18 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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?
• New International Version (NIV)Why is my pain unending and my wound grievous and incurable? You are to me like a deceptive brook, like a spring that fails.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?
• New King James Version (NKJV)Why is my pain perpetual And my wound incurable, Which refuses to be healed? Will You surely be to me like an unreliable stream, As waters that fail?

Context of Jeremiah 15:18

16As your words came to me I drank them in, and they filled my heart with joy and happiness because I belong to you. 17I 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. Why must I continually suffer such painful anguish? Why must I endure the sting of their insults like an incurable wound? Will you let me down when I need you like a brook one goes to for water, but that cannot be relied on?” 19Because of this, the Lord said, “You must repent of such words and thoughts! If you do, I will restore you to the privilege of serving me. If you say what is worthwhile instead of what is worthless, I will again allow you to be my spokesman. They must become as you have been. You must not become like them. 20I will make you as strong as a wall to these people, a fortified wall of bronze. They will attack you, but they will not be able to overcome you. For I will be with you to rescue you and deliver you,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 15:18 word by word

לָ֣מָּה הָיָ֤ה כְאֵבִי֙ נֶ֔צַח וּמַכָּתִ֖י אֲנוּשָׁ֑ה֙ מֵֽאֲנָה֙ הֵֽרָפֵ֔א הָי֨וֹ תִֽהְיֶ֥ה לִי֙ כְּמ֣וֹ אַכְזָ֔ב מַ֖יִם לֹ֥א נֶאֱמָֽנוּ׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Why is my painכְּאֵבke'êb · painH3511
• perpetualנֵ֫צַחnetsach nêtsach · perpetuityH5331
• and my woundמַכָּהmakkâh makkeh · woundH4347
• incurableאָנַשׁ'ânash · be incurableH605
• refusethמָאֵןmâ'ên · to refuseH3985
• to be healedרָפָאrâphâ' râphâh · to healH7495
• wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liarאַכְזָב'akzâb · deceptiveH391
• watersמַיmayim · waterH4325
• failאָמַן'âman · be faithfulH539

Cross-references for Jeremiah 15:18

• Jeremiah 14:19Then I said, “Lord, have you completely rejected the nation of Judah? Do you despise the city of Zion? Why have you struck us with such force that we are beyond recovery? We hope for peace, but nothing good has come of it. We hope for a time of relief from our troubles, but experience terror.
• Psalms 6:3I am absolutely terrified, and you, Lord – how long will this continue?
• Psalms 13:1How long, Lord, will you continue to ignore me? How long will you pay no attention to me?
• Lamentations 3:1I am the man who has experienced affliction from the rod of his wrath.
• Jeremiah 30:12Moreover, the Lord says to the people of Zion, “Your injuries are incurable; your wounds are severe.
• Job 34:6Concerning my right, should I lie? My wound is incurable, although I am without transgression.’
• Micah 1:9For Samaria’s disease is incurable. It has infected Judah; it has spread to the leadership of my people and has even contaminated Jerusalem!
• Jeremiah 1:18I, the Lord, hereby promise to make you as strong as a fortified city, an iron pillar, and a bronze wall. You will be able to stand up against all who live in the land, including the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests and all the people of the land.
• Jeremiah 20:7Lord, you coerced me into being a prophet, and I allowed you to do it. You overcame my resistance and prevailed over me. Now I have become a constant laughingstock. Everyone ridicules me.
• Jeremiah 14:3The leading men of the cities send their servants for water. They go to the cisterns, but they do not find any water there. They return with their containers empty. Disappointed and dismayed, they bury their faces in their hands.
• Job 6:15My brothers have been as treacherous as a seasonal stream, and as the riverbeds of the intermittent streams that flow away.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 15:18

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 18Wilt thou be altogether unto me as - waters that fail? - Leaning either springs, which in the height of summer grow dry; or, like that phenomenon in the sandy desert, where, by a peculiar action of the air on the rising vapors, the resemblance of water is produced, so that the traveler, deceived, rejoices that he is come, in the sandy desert, to the verge of a beautiful lake; but the farther he travels, it is still at the same distance, and at last…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15-18Verses 15-18 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…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-21Verses 15-21 It is matter of comfort that we have a God, to whose knowledge of all things we may appeal. Jeremiah pleads with God for mercy and relief against his enemies, persecutors, and slanderers. It will be a comfort to God's ministers, when men despise them, if they have the testimony of their own consciences. But he complains, that he found little pleasure in his work. Some good people lose much of the pleasantness of religion by the fretfulness…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 18Jeremiah asked two rhetorical questions that suggest he should not have to suffer.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1818. (Jr 30:15). "Pain," namely, the perpetual persecution to which he was exposed, and his being left by God without consolation and "alone." Contrast his feeling here with that in Jr 15:16, when he enjoyed the full presence of God, and was inspired by His words. Therefore he utters words of his natural "infirmity" (so David, Psa 77:10) here; as before he spoke under the higher spiritual nature given him. as a liar, and as--rather, "as a deceiving (river)…Read the comment

Topics related to Jeremiah 15:18

• Doubting
• Wells

In the dictionaries

• Languish
• Rebuke
• Residue
• Revenge
• Pain
• Perpetual; Perpetually; Perpetuity

Commentaries on Jeremiah 15

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings