What is the meaning of Jeremiah 15:6? You have forsaken Me The people of Judah had abandoned the covenant love and exclusive worship God required. • Jeremiah 2:13 pictures them leaving “the spring of living water” for broken cisterns. • Jeremiah 17:13 warns that those who forsake the LORD “will be written in the dust.” • 1 Kings 9:9 shows earlier generations suffering for the same sin. Choosing idols over the living God is never neutral; it is personal betrayal of the One who redeemed them. declares the LORD This is not Jeremiah’s private opinion; it is the very word of God. • Jeremiah’s calling in 1:4-10 established him as God’s mouthpiece. • Isaiah 55:11 reminds us that every word God speaks “will accomplish what I please.” We receive this verdict with humble certainty because its Author is infallible. You have turned your back The picture shifts from abandonment to deliberate rejection—refusing even to face God. • Jeremiah 2:27: “They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces.” • Jeremiah 32:33 repeats the charge, linking it to refusing instruction. Turning away is an act of the will; repeated disobedience hardens the heart until repentance seems unthinkable. So I will stretch out My hand against you The same mighty hand that rescued Israel from Egypt now rises in judgment. • Exodus 7:5 shows God stretching out His hand against Egypt’s idols. • Isaiah 5:25 pictures the Lord’s hand still upraised when His people persist in sin. God’s hand is never idle; it either protects the faithful or disciplines the rebellious. and I will destroy you Judgment is not an idle threat. Babylon’s invasion would prove God’s word true. • Deuteronomy 28:20 warns covenant breakers of “ruin and destruction.” • Jeremiah 4:7 describes the destroyer coming to lay waste the land. Destruction here is temporal (Jerusalem’s fall) and also foretaste of eternal loss for any who spurn salvation. I am weary of showing compassion God’s patience, though vast, is not limitless. Persistent rebellion exhausts divine longsuffering. • Isaiah 1:14 records God saying He is “weary” of His people’s festivals devoid of obedience. • Hosea 11:8-9 captures the tension between God’s compassion and justice. When mercy is despised, judgment must come; otherwise God would deny His own holiness. summary Jeremiah 15:6 traces a tragic progression: forsaking God, turning away, and finally facing an outstretched hand of judgment. Each clause exposes the seriousness of covenant unfaithfulness and the certainty of divine response. Yet even this stern warning carries a gracious purpose: to jolt hearts into repentance before mercy is finally withdrawn. |
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