Jeremiah 15:14

14 And I will make thee to serve thine enemies in a land which thou dost not know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, which shall burn upon you.

Jeremiah 15:14 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 15:14

And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies
Not Jeremiah, but the Jews, to whom these words are continued. The meaning is, that they should go along with the Chaldeans out of their own land into theirs: into a land which thou knowest not;
the land of Babylon; and there is another reading of the words in the margin, "I will cause thee to serve thine enemies ^F15, in a land that thou knowest not"; which is followed by the Targum, Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions. Some render the words, "I will bring thine enemies from, or through, a land that thou knowest not" ^F16; the place from whence they came, and those through which they came, being at a great distance: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you;
meaning the wrath of God, compared to fire, which was kindled and excited by their sins, and which would continue upon them until it had destroyed them.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 (ytdehw) "et servire faciam".
F16 "Et adducam inimicos tuos de terra quam nescis", V. L. "et transire faciam hostes tuos per terram quam nescis", De Dieu; so Cocceius.

Jeremiah 15:14 In-Context

12 Shall iron break the iron from the place of the north wind and the bronze?

13 Thy riches and thy treasures I will give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.

14 And I will make thee to serve thine enemies in a land which thou dost not know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, which shall burn upon you.

15 O LORD, thou knowest: remember me and visit me and revenge me of my enemies; do not take me away in the prolongation of thy anger, know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.

16 Thy words were found, and I ate them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart: for thy name was called upon me, O LORD God of the hosts.