Jeremiah 15:15-21

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• Historical References, Commentary and Comparative Texts:
  • Chapter X, The Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians, Ignatius of Antioch (c. 50 - 115). (Longer version only - 4th cent interpolation.)
  • Rashi's Commentary, c. 1075. chabad.org.
  • From the Geneva Notes.
    • "He does not speak this out of a desire for revenge, but wishing that God would deliver his Church from them who he knew to be hardened and incorrigible."
  • From Matthew Henry's Commentary.
    • "Some good people lose much of the pleasantness of religion by the fretfulness and uneasiness of their natural temper, which they indulge."
  • From Wesley's Notes.
    • "God had all along filled his mouth with such dreadful messages, that his whole prophetical life had been to him a time of mourning and solitude, a time when he sat alone, mourning and weeping in secret for the wrath of God revealed to him against his people."
  • Your Word, My Joy, from The Poor Man's Portions, Robert Hawker, c. 1800.
    • "Yes, Lord, I have indeed found your words most precious, and, through your grace, I have eaten them, and they are as honey and the honey-comb to my soul."
  • From the Commentary on the Whole Bible (Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
    • "The prophet in this had regard to, not his own personal feelings of revenge, but the cause of God; he speaks by inspiration God's will against the ungodly. Contrast in this the law with the gospel."
• Contemporary Commentary, Studies and Exegesis:
  • Commentary, Jeremiah 15:15-21, Richard W. Nysse, Preaching This Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2008.
    • "One difficulty that preachers will face with this text is sorting out the individual and communal import of Jeremiah."
  • Jeremiah 15:15-21, Studies on Old Testament texts from Series A, Ralph W. Klein, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
  • Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Comfort and Challenge: Prophetic Preaching in Pentecost, Daniel J. Simundson, Word & World Texts in Context, Luther Seminary, 1996.
    • "To lament is legitimate."
• Articles & Background:
  • "The Confessions of a Prophet," David Ewert, Direction, 1975.
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  • Avioz, Michael, "The Call for Revenge in Jeremiah's Complaints," Vetus Testamentum, 2005.
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  • Bracke, John M., "Jeremiah 15:15-21, Expository Article," Interpretation, 1983.
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  • Bright, John, "A Prophet's Lament and Its Answer: Jeremiah 15:10-21," Interpretation, 1974
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  • Ewert, David, "The Confessions of a Prophet," Direction, 1975.
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  • Floyd, Michael H., "Prophetic Complaints about the Fulfillment of Oracles in Habakkuk 1:2-17 and Jeremiah 15:10-18," Journal of Biblical Literature, 1991.
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  • O'Connor, Kathleen M., "Lamenting Back to Life," Interpretation, 2008.
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  • O'Connor, Kathleen M., "The Prophet Jeremiah and Exclusive Loyalty to God," Interpretation, 2005.
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  • Simundson, Daniel J., "Comfort and Challenge: Prophetic Preaching in Pentecost," Word & World, 1996. (Section on this text begins on page 373.)
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  • van Wolde, Ellen, "Sentiments as Culturally Constructed Emotions: Anger and Love in the Hebrew Bible," Biblical Interepretation, 2008.
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    • A mighty fortress is our God
    • A safe stronghold our God is still
    • Lord of the worlds above
    • Lord, thy word abideth
    • O praise the Lord, ye servants of the Lord
    • We love the place, O God
  • Hymns with Scripture Allusions: Jeremiah 15:16. The Cyber Hymnal.
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