Jeremiah 15 · Verse 6

Jeremiah 15:6

Thou hast forsaken me, saith the Lord, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
Jeremiah 15:6, King James Version

Jeremiah 15:6 in other translations

BSBYou have forsaken Me, declares the LORD. You have turned your back. So I will stretch out My hand against you and I will destroy you; I am weary of showing compassion.
WEBYou have rejected me,” says the LORD. “You have gone backward. Therefore I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you. I am weary of showing compassion.
ASVThou hast rejected me, saith Jehovah, thou art gone backward: therefore have I stretched out my hand against thee, and destroyed thee; I am weary with repenting.
YLTThou--thou hast left Me--an affirmation of Jehovah, Backward thou goest, And I stretch out My hand against thee, And I destroy thee, I have been weary of repenting,
DARBYThou hast cast me off, saith Jehovah, thou art gone backward; and I have stretched out my hand against thee, and will destroy thee: I am become weary of repenting.
BBEYou have given me up, says the Lord, you have gone back: so my hand is stretched out against you for your destruction; I am tired of changing my purpose.
WebsterThou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.

What does Jeremiah 15:6 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
6. weary with repenting--(Ho 13:14; 11:8). I have so often repented of the evil that I threatened (Jr 26:19; Ex 32:14; 1Ch 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.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 6 I am weary with repenting - With repeatedly changing my purpose. I have often, after purposing to punish, showed them mercy. I will do it no longer; it is useless. I took them often at their promise, and in every instance they have failed.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 15:1-9

The destruction of the wicked described. (Jr 15:1-9) The prophet laments such messages, and is reproved. (Jr 15:10-14) He supplicates pardon, and is promised protection. (Jr 15:15-21) Verses 1-9 The Lord declares that even Moses and Samuel must have pleaded in vain. The putting of this as a case, though they should stand before him, shows that they do not, and that saints in heaven do not pray for saints on earth…

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Jeremiah 15:6 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אַ֣תְּ'atyouH859
נָטַ֥שְׁתְּna.Tashtyou abandonedH5203
אֹתִ֛י'o.Ti<obj.> meH853
נְאֻם\־ne.'um-[the] utterance ofH5002
יְהוָ֖הYah.wehYahwehH3068
אָח֣וֹר'a.ChorbackwardsH268
תֵּלֵ֑כִיte.Le.khiyou goH1980
וָאַ֨טva.'Atand I have stretched outH5186
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
יָדִ֤יya.Dihand myH3027
עָלַ֙יִךְ֙'a.La.yikhon youH5921
וָֽאַשְׁחִיתֵ֔ךְva.'ash.chi.Tekhand I have destroyed youH7843
נִלְאֵ֖יתִיnil.'Ei.tiI had wearied myselfH3811
הִנָּחֵֽם\׃hi.na.Chemto relentH5162

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Jeremiah 15:6

  • Jeremiah 7:24

    But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

  • Zephaniah 1:4

    I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests;

  • Hosea 11:7

    And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.

  • Isaiah 1:4

    Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

  • Zechariah 7:11

    But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

  • Ezekiel 25:7

    Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

  • Hosea 13:14

    I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.

  • Jeremiah 6:11

    Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.

  • Jeremiah 1:16

    And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

  • Jeremiah 6:19

    Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

  • Jeremiah 2:17

    Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way?

  • Hosea 4:16

    For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
forsaken.
1:16; 2:13,17,19
thou art.
7:24; 8:5; Isa 1:4; 28:13; Ho 4:16; 11:7; Zec 7:11
stretch.
Eze 14:9; 25:7; Zep 1:4
I am.
6:11; 20:9; Ps 78:38-40; Eze 12:26-28; Ho 13:14; Am 7:3-8

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Context

  • Jeremiah 15:5

    For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?

  • Jeremiah 15:6

    Thou hast forsaken me, saith the Lord, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.

  • Jeremiah 15:7

    And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.

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Jeremiah 15:6 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Tú me dejaste, dice Jehová, atrás te volviste: por tanto yo extenderé sobre ti mi mano, y te destruiré; estoy cansado de arrepentirme.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Tu m’as délaissé, dit l’ Éternel, tu t’en es allée en arrière; et j’ai étendu ma main sur toi, et je te détruirai: je suis las de me repentir.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Du hast mich verstoßen, spricht Jehova, du gingst rückwärts; und so werde ich meine Hand wider dich ausstrecken und dich verderben; ich bin des Bereuens müde.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Tu reliquisti me, dicit Dominus; retrorsum abiisti: et extendam manum meam super te, et interficiam te: laboravi rogans.