18 Why is mine heaviness continual? and my plague desperate and cannot be healed, why art thou unto me [a]as a liar, and as waters that fail?

19 Therefore thus saith the Lord, If thou [b]return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take away the [c]precious from the vile, thou shalt be [d]according to my word: let them return [e]unto thee, but return not thou unto them.

20 And I will make thee unto this people a strong brazen wall, and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not [f]prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee, and to deliver thee, saith the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 15:18 And hast not assisted me according to the promise? wherein appeareth that in the Saints of God is imperfection of faith, which through impatience is ofttimes assailed, as Jer. 20:7.
  2. Jeremiah 15:19 If thou forget these carnal considerations, and faithfully execute thy charge.
  3. Jeremiah 15:19 That is, seek to win the good from the bad.
  4. Jeremiah 15:19 To wit, as my mouth hath pronounced, Jer. 1:18, and as here followeth, verse 20.
  5. Jeremiah 15:19 Conform not thyself to their wickedness, but let them follow thy godly example.
  6. Jeremiah 15:20 I will learn thee with an invincible strength and constancy, so that all the powers of the world shall not overcome thee.

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