Jeremiah 15:17
Good News Translation
I did not spend my time with other people, laughing and having a good time. In obedience to your orders I stayed by myself and was filled with anger.

New Revised Standard Version
I did not sit in the company of merrymakers, nor did I rejoice; under the weight of your hand I sat alone, for you had filled me with indignation.

Contemporary English Version
I don't go to parties and have a good time. Instead, I keep to myself, because you have filled me with your anger.

New American Bible
I did not sit celebrating in the circle of merrymakers; Under the weight of your hand I sat alone because you filled me with rage.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I sat not in the assembly of jesters, nor did I make a boast of the presence of thy hand: I sat alone, because thou hast filled me with threats.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I sat not in the assembly of jesters, nor did I make a boast of the presence of thy hand: I sat alone, because thou hast filled me with threats.

sat not.

Psalm 1:1 Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence:

Psalm 26:4,5 I have not sat with the council of vanity: neither will I go in with the doers of unjust things. . . .

2 Corinthians 6:17 Wherefore: Go out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing:

sat alone.

Jeremiah 13:17 But if you will not hear this, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride: weeping it shall weep, and my eyes shall run down with tears, because the flock of the Lord is carried away captive.

Lamentations 3:28 Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself.

Ezekiel 3:24,25 And the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet: and he spoke to me, and said to me: Go in; and shut thyself up in the midst of thy house. . . .

Daniel 7:28 Hitherto is the end of the word. I, Daniel, was much troubled with my thoughts, and my countenance was changed in me: but I kept the word in my heart.

for.

Jeremiah 1:10 Lo, I have set thee this day over the nations, and over kingdoms, to root up, and to pull down, and to waste, and to destroy, and to build, and to plant.

Jeremiah 6:11 Therefore am I full of the fury of the Lord, I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon the child abroad, and upon the council of the young men together: for man and woman shall be taken, the ancient and he that is full of days.

Jeremiah 20:8,9 For I am speaking now this long time, crying out against iniquity, and I often proclaim devastation: and the word of the Lord is made a reproach to me, and a derision all the day. . . .

Context
Jeremiah's Woe
16Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and thy word was to me a joy and gladness of my heart: for thy name is called upon me, O Lord God of hosts. 17I sat not in the assembly of jesters, nor did I make a boast of the presence of thy hand: I sat alone, because thou hast filled me with threats.18Why is my sorrow become perpetual, and my wound desperate so as to refuse to be healed? it is become to me as the falsehood of deceitful waters that cannot be trusted.…
Cross References
2 Corinthians 6:17
Wherefore: Go out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing:

Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence:

Psalm 102:7
I have watched, and am become as a sparrow all alone on the housetop.

Jeremiah 6:11
Therefore am I full of the fury of the Lord, I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon the child abroad, and upon the council of the young men together: for man and woman shall be taken, the ancient and he that is full of days.

Jeremiah 13:17
But if you will not hear this, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride: weeping it shall weep, and my eyes shall run down with tears, because the flock of the Lord is carried away captive.

Jeremiah 16:8
And do not thou go into the house of feasting, to sit with them, and to eat and drink:

Lamentations 3:28
Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself.

Ezekiel 3:24
And the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet: and he spoke to me, and said to me: Go in; and shut thyself up in the midst of thy house.

Ezekiel 3:25
And thou, O son of man, behold they shall put bands upon thee, and they shall bind thee with them: and thou shalt not go forth from the midst of them.

Zechariah 1:12
And the angel of the Lord answered, and said: O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem, and on the cities of Juda, with which thou hast been angry? this is now the seventieth year.

Jeremiah 15:16
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