Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 15:16

16 Thy words were found , and I did eat them , and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoycing of my heart , for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts .

Either the words which from time to time thou didst reveal to me, were by me

greedily digested, and

though some of them were dreadful and terrible words, yet because they proceeded from thee, I was glad to hear them, and to be thy instrument to communicate them to thy people, or (which better pleaseth the Learned Author of our English Annotations, and possibly may be more the sense of the place,) thy word of Commission, (of which see chap. 1.) by which I was made thy Prophet, was at first very grateful and pleasing to me, I was glad at the heart, when thou at any time didst reveal thy will to me.

Thou art the Lord of Hosts, and so able to protect thy messengers. Lord, I am called by thy name, I became a Prophet by thy Authority, therefore do thou own, protect and defend me.

Marginal references: Ezek. 3.1.3. Rev. 10.9.; Heb. thy name is called upon me.