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In the previous chapter, Jeremiah joins the nation’s communal prayer and its accusatory confrontation with God. Chapter 15 presents Jeremiah’s own personal confrontation with God over his fate as a prophet. In the wake of God’s second, stern rejection of prophetic intercessory prayer, “Even Moses and Samuel” would not be able to change God’s mind (15:1), Jeremiah is left with no recourse. Under normal circumstances, like his illustrious prophetic forbearers, Moses (Exodus 32, Numbers 14) and Samuel (1 Samuel 15:11), Jeremiah, too, would have mounted a defense on behalf of the people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Ezekiel 22:30, this is God’s expectation from true prophets, and, quite likely, the reason that God communicates with them: “I (=God) sought a man among them to repair the wall or to stand in the breach before Me in behalf of this land, that I might not destroy it.” Now, the prophet’s hands are tied. He is privy to impending disaster, but cannot employ prayer, his only means of averting that disaster.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tensions between the prophet and the community reinforce Jeremiah’s sense of personal failure.\u00a0 At the beginning of his argument to God, he bemoans his very birth and characterizes himself as “a man of conflict and strife with all the land,” a man whom “everyone curses” (10).\u00a0 “Bearing insult” (15), he “sits lonely . . . filled with gloom” (17). Jeremiah’s only request from God is vengeance against the tormentors (15).<\/span><\/p>\n

Faced with communal ostracism and personal frustration, Jeremiah accuses God. Like the nation in Chapter 14:8, 9, and 19, the prophet’s own accusation comes in the form of a “Why” question: “Why must my pain be endless, my wound incurable, resistant to healing?\u00a0 You have been to me like a spring that fails, like waters that cannot be relied on” (18). The negative water metaphors here express the sense of failed hope made explicit earlier in Jeremiah’s speech, in the contrast between verses 15 and 16. Once, Jeremiah felt good about being a prophet and the concomitant closeness to the Divine: “knowing that Your name is attached to me” was a source of “delight and joy” (16).\u00a0 Now, those feelings have long since faded, leaving Jeremiah to lament: “Consider how I have borne insult on Your account” (15) and “I have sat lonely because of Your hand upon me, For You have filled me with gloom” (17).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":70098,"id":70098,"title":"jer15-faucet","filename":"jer15-faucet.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-faucet.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/you-have-filled-me-with-gloom\/jer15-faucet\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"jer15-faucet","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":70097,"date":"2020-02-12 10:27:53","modified":"2020-02-12 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