Jeremías 15:19

Sagradas Escrituras

Por tanto, así dijo el SEÑOR: Si te convirtieres, yo te convertiré, y delante de mí estarás; y si sacares lo precioso de lo vil, serás como mi boca. Conviértanse ellos a ti, y tú no te conviertas a ellos.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Entonces dijo así el Señor : Si vuelves, yo te restauraré, en mi presencia estarás; si apartas lo precioso de lo vil, serás mi portavoz. Que se vuelvan ellos a ti, pero tú no te vuelvas a ellos.

La Biblia Reina-Valera
Por tanto as� dijo Jehov�: Si te convirtieres, yo te repondr�, y delante de m� estar�s; y si sacares lo precioso de lo vil, ser�s como mi boca. Convi�rtanse ellos � ti, y t� no te conviertas � ellos.

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Por tanto, as� dice Jehov�: Si te convirtieres, yo te repondr�, y delante de m� estar�s; y si sacares lo precioso de lo vil, ser�s como mi boca. Convi�rtanse ellos a ti, y t� no te conviertas a ellos.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

return: Jeremiah 15:10-18, Jeremiah 20:9, Exodus 6:29, Exodus 6:30, Jonah 3:2

stand: Jeremiah 15:1, 1 Kings 17:1, Proverbs 22:29, Zechariah 3:7, Luke 1:19, Luke 21:36, Jude 1:24

take: Leviticus 10:10, Isaiah 32:5, Isaiah 32:6, Ezekiel 22:26, Ezekiel 44:23, Hebrews 5:14

as my: Exodus 4:12, Exodus 4:15, Exodus 4:16, Luke 10:16, Luke 12:12, Luke 21:15

let them: Jeremiah 38:20, Jeremiah 38:21, Ezekiel 2:7, Ezekiel 3:10, Ezekiel 3:11, Acts 20:27, 2 Corinthians 5:16, Galatians 1:10, Galatians 2:5

Reciprocal: Exodus 8:1 - Go Leviticus 14:57 - teach Deuteronomy 10:8 - to stand Ezra 8:17 - I told them Job 36:2 - I have yet to speak Isaiah 8:11 - instructed Isaiah 49:2 - made me Isaiah 58:1 - spare Jeremiah 35:19 - stand Daniel 1:5 - stand Daniel 1:19 - therefore Micah 3:8 - I am Zechariah 3:1 - standing Malachi 2:7 - the priest's Mark 12:14 - carest Acts 23:11 - the Lord 2 Timothy 2:21 - purge Revelation 9:20 - and idols

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore thus saith the Lord, if thou return,.... From thine unbelief, diffidence, and impenitence, and repent of them; expressed in the preceding verses:

then will I bring thee again; or, "restore thee s"; pardon his sin, and return him to his post and place, to his office and ministry in it, and confirm and establish him therein:

and thou shalt stand before me; not only as a petitioner for the people; see Jeremiah 15:1, but as a servant of the Lord, attending to his word, and waiting his orders, and ready to execute them. It denotes his stability in his office:

and if thou wilt take forth the precious from the vile; take precious truths, comparable to gold, silver, and precious stones; truths more valuable and desirable than thousands of gold and silver, from those doctrines which are worthless and contemptible, comparable to wood, hay, and stubble, and everything that is mean and vile; these faithful ministers should separate one from the other, and not mix and blend them together: or precious souls, truly gracious ones, who are precious in the sight of God, are redeemed by Christ, by his precious blood, and are adorned with the graces of the Spirit; these are to be distinguished from the vile, from sinners impenitent and unbelieving, that live in sin, in defiance of the law, and in contempt of the Gospel; a difference is to be made between them; delivering out comfortable words to the one, and denouncing severe threatenings to the other; doing the reverse of the false prophets, Ezekiel 13:22:

thou shalt be as my mouth; to the people; speak what I command thee, and whatsoever thou sayest shall be as if I had spoken it myself:

let them return unto thee, but return not thou unto them; this is said of the people of the Jews, to whom the prophet was sent; and the sense is, that he should not at all comply with them, or conform to their humours, or flatter and sooth them in their sins, as the false prophets did; but if they returned to him, attended on his ministry, received his words and messages, and agreed and conformed to him, and followed his directions and example, it would be very well; but otherwise he was not in the least to give way to them, or go into any sinful compliance with them, either with respect to doctrine or practice,

s אשיבך "restituam te", Tigurine version.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah had questioned God’s righteousness (see Jeremiah 12:1 note); he is told, “If thou return,” if thou repent thee of thy doubts, and think only of thy duty, “then will I bring thee again, then will I cause thee again to stand before Me.” To stand before a person means to be his chief officer or vicegerent. It implies therefore the restoration of Jeremiah to the prophetic office.

If thou take forth the precious from the vile - i. e., if thou cause the precious metal to come forth from the dross. Jeremiah was to separate in himself what was divine and holy from the dross of human passion. Let him abandon this mistrust, this sensitiveness, this idea that God did not deal righteously with him, and then “he shall be as God’s mouth, i. e., as the organ by which God speaks.

Let them return ... - Rather, “they shall return unto thee, but thou shalt not return unto them.” A flattering prophet perishes with the people whom his soft speeches have confirmed in their sin: but the truthful speaking of God’s word saves both.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 15:19. If thou return — By repentance unto me, -

Then will I bring thee again — Restore thee to thy own country. But some think the words are spoken to the prophet in reference to his ministry. He had greatly repined because of the persecutions which he endured. The Lord reprehends him, and is about to take from him the prophetic gift; but exhorts him first to take the precious from the vile - not to attend to the deceitful words of the people, but boldly declare the message he had given him; not to return unto the people, but let the people return unto him. And then he should be as God's mouth - his words should appear to be what they were, the genuine words of God; and the people should be obliged to acknowledge them as such.