Jer 15:1 | NETfull | STEP | Then the Lord said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for these people, I would not feel pity for them! Get them away from me! Tell them to go away!

Jeremiah 15:1

1 Then the Lord said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for ^{▼▼ The words “pleading for” have been supplied in the translation to explain the idiom (a metonymy). For parallel usage see BDB 763 s.v. עָמַד Qal.1.a and compare usage in Gen 19:27, Deut 4:10.} ^{▼▼ Moses and Samuel were well-known for their successful intercession on behalf of Israel. See Ps 99:6–8 and see, e.g., Exod 32:11–14, 30–34; 1 Sam 7:5–9. The Lord is here rejecting Jeremiah’s intercession on behalf of the people (14:19–22).} these people, I would not feel pity for them! ^{▼▼ Heb “my soul would not be toward them.” For the usage of “soul” presupposed here see BDB 660 s.v. נֶפֶשׁ 6 in the light of the complaints and petitions in Jeremiah’s prayer in 14:19, 21.} Get them away from me! Tell them to go away! ^{▼▼ Heb “Send them away from my presence and let them go away.”}