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

16Your words were found, so I ate them. Your words were a delight to me and the joy of my heart. For I am called by Your Name, Adonai-Elohei-Tzva’ot. 17I never sat in the company of revelers nor made merry. Because of Your hand I sat alone, for You filled me with indignation. Why is my pain unending and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will You be to me like a mirage of water that is undependable? 19Therefore thus says Adonai: “If you return, I will restore you, you will stand before Me. If you extract the precious from the worthless, you will be as My mouth. Let them turn to you, but you must not turn to them. 20I will make you a fortified bronze wall to this people. They will fight against you, but will not prevail against you, for I am with you to save you and deliver you.” It is a declaration of Adonai.

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 14:19Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for shalom, but nothing good came, and for a time of healing, but suddenly, terror!
• Psalms 6:3Be gracious to me, Adonai, for I am weak. Heal me, Adonai— for my bones are shuddering with fear,
• Psalms 13:1For the music director, a psalm of David.
• Lamentations 3:1I am the strong man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.
• Jeremiah 30:12For thus says Adonai: “Your hurt is incurable, and your wound is severe.
• Job 34:6Concerning my right, should I lie? My wound is incurable, although I am without transgression.’
• Micah 1:9For her wounds are incurable. For it has come up to Judah. It has reached the gate of my people— even up to Jerusalem!
• Jeremiah 1:18Look, today I have set you up as a fortified city— an iron pillar and bronze walls— against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, its princes against its kohanim, and against the people of the land.
• Jeremiah 20:7Adonai, You enticed me, so I was enticed. You overpowered me, and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long. Everyone mocks me.
• Jeremiah 14:3Their nobles will send their lads for water. They come to the cisterns, but find no water. Their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.
• Job 6:15My brothers have acted deceptively, as a seasonal stream, as a torrential stream that overflows

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