Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 15:18

18 Why is my pain perpetual? and my wound incurable which refuseth to be healed ? wilt thou be altogether to me as a liar, and as waters that fail .

The words are judged to be the words of Ieremiah, and that with relation unto himselfe, complaining of the hard task which God had put upon him, continually filling his mouth with such bitter words of evil against the people, as exposed him to their most implacable rage against him, and persecution of him, so as his misery seemed like a pain and a wound, for which was no remedy but patience.

Ieremiah, though a great Prophet of the Lord, was (as Elijah) a man subject to like passions with other men, he here chargeth God with unfaithfulness, as if he had deceived his expectations, and had been to him as a pit of waters, that promised fair, but failed a man when he had most need of them. The servants of God have sometimes been surprized with such passions and temptations, 1 Sam. 27.1. Psal. 77.7, 9. It is an hard thing not to see, and yet believe.

Marginal references: chap. 30.15.; Job 6.15. &c.; Be not sure.