Jeremiah 15:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I did not take my seat among the band of those who are glad, and I had no joy; I kept by myself because of your hand; for you have made me full of wrath.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 1:1 : 1 Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord.
  • Lam 3:28 : 28 Let him be seated by himself, saying nothing, because he has put it on him.
  • Ps 26:4-5 : 4 I have not taken my seat with foolish persons, and I do not go with false men. 5 I have been a hater of the band of wrongdoers, and I will not be seated among sinners.
  • Ps 102:7 : 7 I keep watch like a bird by itself on the house-top.
  • Jer 6:11 : 11 For this reason I am full of the wrath of the Lord, I am tired of keeping it in: may it be let loose on the children in the street, and on the band of the young men together: for even the husband with his wife will be taken, the old man with him who is full of days.
  • Jer 13:17 : 17 But if you do not give ear to it, my soul will be weeping in secret for your pride; my eye will be weeping bitterly, streaming with water, because the Lord's flock has been taken away as prisoners.
  • Ezek 3:24-25 : 24 Then the spirit came into me and put me on my feet; and he had talk with me and said to me, Go and keep yourself shut up inside your house. 25 But see, O son of man, I will put bands on you, prisoning you in them, and you will not go out among them:
  • 2 Cor 6:17 : 17 For which cause, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and let no unclean thing come near you; and I will take you for myself,
  • Dan 7:28 : 28 Here is the end of the account. As for me, Daniel, I was greatly troubled by my thoughts, and the colour went from my face: but I kept the thing in my heart.
  • Jer 16:8 : 8 And you are not to go into the house of feasting, or be seated with them to take food or drink.
  • Jer 20:8-9 : 8 For every word I say is a cry for help; I say with a loud voice, Violent behaviour and wasting: because the word of the Lord is made a shame to me and a cause of laughing all the day. 9 And if I say, I will not keep him in mind, I will not say another word in his name; then it is in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am tired of keeping myself in, I am not able to do it.
  • Jer 1:10 : 10 See, this day I have put you over the nations and over the kingdoms, for uprooting and smashing down, for destruction and overturning, for building up and planting.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Jer 15:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15 O Lord, you have knowledge: keep me in mind and come to my help, and give their right reward to those who are attacking me; take me not away, for you are slow to be angry: see how I have undergone shame because of you from all those who make little of your word;

    16 But to me your word is a joy, making my heart glad; for I am named by your name, O Lord God of armies.

  • Ps 26:4-5
    2 verses
    75%

    4 I have not taken my seat with foolish persons, and I do not go with false men.

    5 I have been a hater of the band of wrongdoers, and I will not be seated among sinners.

  • 2 Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing.

  • Ps 35:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15 But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me.

    16 Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.

  • Jer 17:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15 See, they say to me, Where is the word of the Lord? let it come now.

    16 As for me, I have not said; Let the day of trouble come to them quickly; and I have not been hoping for the death-giving day; you have knowledge of what came from my lips; it was open before you.

  • Jer 20:7-10
    4 verses
    73%

    7 O Lord, you have been false to me, and I was tricked; you are stronger than I, and have overcome me: I have become a thing to be laughed at all the day, everyone makes sport of me.

    8 For every word I say is a cry for help; I say with a loud voice, Violent behaviour and wasting: because the word of the Lord is made a shame to me and a cause of laughing all the day.

    9 And if I say, I will not keep him in mind, I will not say another word in his name; then it is in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am tired of keeping myself in, I am not able to do it.

    10 For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

  • 28 I go about in dark clothing, uncomforted; I get up in the public place, crying out for help.

  • 18 Why is my pain unending and my wound without hope of being made well? Sorrow is mine, for you are to me as a stream offering false hope and as waters which are not certain.

  • Lam 3:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14 I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.

    15 He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.

  • Ps 102:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9 I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:

    10 Because of your passion and your wrath, for I have been lifted up and then made low by you.

  • 12 For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;

  • 20 My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.

  • 51 The men of pride have made great sport of me; but I have not been turned from your law.

  • 21 My heart was made bitter, and I was pained by the bite of grief:

  • 13 From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.

  • 6 He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.

  • 158 I saw with hate those who were untrue to you; for they did not keep your saying.

  • 11 So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.

  • 7 But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.

  • Lam 1:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

    20 See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.

    21 Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.

  • 17 I was quickly angry with his evil ways, and sent punishment on him, veiling my face in wrath: and he went on, turning his heart from me.

  • Job 29:24-25
    2 verses
    70%

    24 I was laughing at them when they had no hope, and the light of my face was never clouded by their fear.

    25 I took my place as a chief, guiding them on their way, and I was as a king among his army. ...

  • 18 Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.

  • 1 <A Psalm. Of David. To keep in memory.> O Lord, be not bitter with me in your wrath; let not your hand be on me in the heat of your passion.

  • 19 Sorrow is mine for I am wounded! my wound may not be made well; and I said, Cruel is my disease, I may not be free from it.

  • 15 I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.

  • 11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

  • 7 I will be glad and have delight in your mercy; because you have seen my trouble; you have had pity on my soul in its sorrows;

  • 16 For these things I am weeping; my eye is streaming with water; because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me: my children are made waste, because the hater is strong.

  • 10 Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.

  • 3 I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

  • 5 Sorrow is mine because I am strange in Meshech, and living in the tents of Kedar.

  • 9 I am on fire with passion for your house; and the hard things which are said about you have come on me.

  • 2 I made no sound, I said no word, even of good; and I was moved with sorrow.

  • 4 Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.

  • 10 So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.

  • 29 If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;

  • 20 But, O Lord of armies, judging in righteousness, testing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them: for I have put my cause before you.

  • 22 And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.