I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation. (Jeremiah 15:17 KJV)
I sat not in the assembly of them that make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand; for thou hast filled me with indignation. (Jeremiah 15:17 ASV)
I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor exulted: I sat alone because of thy hand; for thou hast filled me with indignation. (Jeremiah 15:17 DBY)
I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of your hand; for you have filled me with indignation. (Jeremiah 15:17 WEB)
I have not sat in an assembly of deriders, Nor do I exult, because of thy hand, –Alone I have sat, For [with] indignation Thou hast filled me. (Jeremiah 15:17 YLT)
Interlinear
I sat <yashab> not in the assembly <cowd> of the mockers, <sachaq> nor rejoiced; <`alaz> I sat <yashab> alone <badad> because <paniym> of thy hand: <yad> for thou hast filled <male’> me with indignation. <za`am> (Jeremiah 15:17 KJV)
British Family Bible
I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, The word translated “mockers” is more properly rendered “them that make merry,” Jer 30:19; 31:4. In the preceding verse the Prophet had declared, that he had felt great satisfaction at first in being appointed to the office of God’s messenger. But his joy was not of long continuance; the tenour of his commission was such as to effect him, like St. Paul, and much upon the same account, with “great heaviness and continual sorrow of heart,” Ro 9:2; so that, renouncing all cheerful society, he indulged a solitary melancholy, in prospect of the dire effects of God’s indignation against his unhappy country. Dr. Blayney.
God’s judgments, as they were represented to the Prophets, often raised such dreadful ideas in their mind, as to affect them in an extraordinary manner, especially if their threatenings concerned their own country, or the church of God; see Jer 23:9; Eze 3:14; Da 7:28; Hab 3:2,16. W. Lowth.
because of thy hand: God’s hand may be understood either of his judgments, which, being denounced by the prophet, might be compared to a “hand” stretched out, and just ready to strike; or else of the prophetical impulse, which was strong upon Jeremiah, and in a manner forced him to be the messenger of evil tidings: compare 2Ki 3:15; Isa 8:11; Eze 1:3; 3:14. W. Lowth.
Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary
Verse 17. My “rejoicing” (Jer 15:16) was not that of the profane mockers (Ps 1:1; 26:4,5) at feasts. So far from having fellowship with these, he was expelled from society, and made to sit “alone,” because of his faithful prophecies.
because of thy hand–that is, Thine inspiration (Isa 8:11; Eze 1:3; 3:14).
filled me with indignation–So Jer 6:11, “full of the fury of the Lord”; so full was he of the subject (God’s “indignation” against the ungodly) with which God had inspired him, as not to be able to contain himself from expressing it. The same comparison by contrast between the effect of inspiration, and that of wine, both taking a man out of himself, occurs (Ac 2:13,15,18).
Patrick/Lowth/Whitby/Lowman Commentary
I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, The word meshahakim, here translated mockers, is elsewhere rendered, “those that make merry” (see Jer 30:19; 31:4), which signification the Chaldee paraphrase follows, and, as I conceive, better suits this place; the sense of which is, that Jeremy quickly found the joy which he had conceived from the honour of being a prophet, was turned into heaviness; all his prophecies containing nothing but terrible denunciations of God’s indignation against a sinful people. This makes me, saith he, sit alone, renounce all cheerful conversation, and give myself to solitariness and pensive thoughts (compare La 3:28). God’s judgments, as they were represented to the prophets, often raised such dreadful ideas in their minds, as to effect them in an extraordinary manner, especially if their threatenings concerned their own country, or the church of God (see Jer 23:9; Eze 3:4; Da 7:28; Hab 3:2,16).
Because of thy hand: God’s hand may either be understood of his judgments, which, being denounced by the prophet, might be resembled to a hand stretched out, and just ready to strike; or else of the prophetical impulse, which was strong upon Jeremiah, and in a manner forced him to be the messenger of evil tidings (compare 2Ki 3:15; Isa 8:11; Eze 1:4; 3:14).