Jeremiah 15

Jeremiah 15:1-21 . GOD'S REPLY TO JEREMIAH'S INTERCESSORY PRAYER.

1. Moses . . . Samuel--eminent in intercessions ( Exodus 32:11 Exodus 32:12 , 1 Samuel 7:9 , Psalms 99:6 ).
be toward--could not be favorably inclined toward them.
out of my sight--God speaks as if the people were present before Him, along with Jeremiah.

2. death--deadly plague ( Jeremiah 18:21 , 43:11 , Ezekiel 5:2 Ezekiel 5:12 , Zechariah 11:9 ).

3. appoint--( Leviticus 26:16 ).
kinds--of punishments.

4. cause . . . to be removed--( Deuteronomy 28:25 , Ezekiel 23:46 ). Rather, "I will give them up to vexation," I will cause them to wander so as nowhere to have repose [CALVIN]; ( 2 Chronicles 29:8 , "trouble;" Margin, "commotion").
because of Manasseh--He was now dead, but the effects of his sins still remained. How much evil one bad man can cause! The evil fruits remain even after he himself has received repentance and forgiveness. The people had followed his wicked example ever since; and it is implied that it was only through the long-suffering of God that the penal consequences had been suspended up to the present time (compare 1 Kings 14:16 , 2 Kings 21:11 , 23:26 , 2 Kings 24:3 2 Kings 24:4 ).

5. go aside . . . how thou doest--Who will turn aside (in passing by) to salute thee (to wish thee "peace")?

6. weary with repenting--( Hosea 13:14 , 11:8 ). I have so often repented of the evil that I threatened ( Jeremiah 26:19 , Exodus 32:14 , 1 Chronicles 21:15 ), and have spared them, without My forbearance moving them to repentance, that I will not again change My purpose (God speaking in condescension to human modes of thought), but will take vengeance on them now.

7. fan--tribulation--from tribulum, a threshing instrument, which separates the chaff from the wheat ( Matthew 3:12 ).
gates of the land--that is, the extreme bounds of the land through which the entrance to and exit from it lie. MAURER translates, "I will fan," that is, cast them forth "to the gates of the land" ( Nahum 3:13 ). "In the gates"; English Version draws the image from a man cleaning corn with a fan; he stands at the gate of the threshing-floor in the open air, to remove the wheat from the chaff by means of the wind; so God threatens to remove Israel out of the bounds of the land [HOUBIGANT].