Yeremia 15:19
Konteks15:19 Because of this, the Lord said, 1
“You must repent of such words and thoughts!
If you do, I will restore you to the privilege of serving me. 2
If you say what is worthwhile instead of what is worthless,
I will again allow you to be my spokesman. 3
They must become as you have been.
You must not become like them. 4
Yeremia 36:6
Konteks36:6 So you go there the next time all the people of Judah come in from their towns to fast 5 in the Lord’s temple. Read out loud where all of them can hear you what I told you the Lord said, which you wrote in the scroll. 6
[15:19] 1 tn Heb “So the
[15:19] 2 tn Heb “If you return [ = repent], I will restore [more literally, ‘cause you to return’] that you may stand before me.” For the idiom of “standing before” in the sense of serving see BDB 764 s.v. עָמַד Qal.1.e and compare the usage in 1 Kgs 10:8; 12:8; 17:1; Deut 10:8.
[15:19] 3 tn Heb “you shall be as my mouth.”
[15:19] sn For the classic statement of the prophet as God’s “mouth/mouthpiece,” = “spokesman,” see Exod 4:15-16; 7:1-2.
[15:19] 4 tn Heb “They must turn/return to you and you must not turn/return to them.”
[15:19] sn Once again the root “return” (שׁוּב, shuv) is being played on as in 3:1–4:4. See the threefold call to repentance in 3:12, 14, 22. The verb is used here four times “repent,” “restore,” and “become” twice. He is to serve as a model of repentance, not an imitator of their apostasy. In accusing God of being unreliable he was coming dangerously close to their kind of behavior.
[36:6] 5 sn Regular fast days were not a part of Israel’s religious calendar. Rather fast days were called on special occasions, i.e., in times of drought or a locust plague (Joel 1:14; 2:15), or during a military crisis (2 Chr 20:3), or after defeat in battle (1 Sam 31:13; 2 Sam 1:12). A fast day was likely chosen for the reading of the scroll because the people would be more mindful of the crisis they were in and be in more of a repentant mood. The events referred to in the study note on v. 1 would have provided the basis for Jeremiah’s anticipation of a fast day when the scroll could be read.
[36:6] 6 tn Heb “So you go and read from the scroll which you have written from my mouth the words of the