O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
Ver. 15. O Lord, thou knowest.] Jeremiah had begun a complaint, Jer 15:10 not without some tang and tincture of human infirmity. Invalidum omne natura querulum. God graciously interrupted him, and came leaping over all those "mountains of Bether," all lets and impediments, to his comfort and best satisfaction. Jer 15:11-12 Nevertheless Jeremiah hath not done, but goeth on as before; et humanum aliquid patitur.
Remember me, and visit me.] He was full, and speaks thick.
Take me not away in thy longsuffering.] While thou bearest with them, take care of me, that I perish not by their perfidy aud cruelty.
Know that for thy cause I have suffered rebuke.] Ceu dabitorem compellat Deum, suaque adducit merita. He delivers himself as if he held God to be his debtor. This was not so well.