Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 15:17

17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoyced : I sate alone because of thy hand, for thou hast filled me with indignation .

Some, and those the most, interpret these words, as an argument the Prophet useth with God to obtain his favour, because though the country was full of wicked men, such as scoffed at the denouncings of Gods Judgments, yet he had no share with them, therefore he desires he might have no share with those wicked men, in whose company he had had no delight, and in whose prophane contempt of God, he had no share: But the Learned A[illegible: 1 letter]thor of our English Annotations, thinks (and that very probably, if we consider what follows) that the words should rather be Translated thus, I sate not in the assemblyes of those that made merry; intimating, that though he rejoyced in his heart, when God gave him Commission to be his Prophet, yet God had all along filled his mouth with such dreadful messages to be delivered to his people, that his whole Prophetical life had been to him a time of mourning and solitude,

a time when he sate alone, mourning and weeping in secret for the wrath of God revealed to him against his people, and by him to be revealed unto the people.

Marginal references: Psal. 1.1.