I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.
I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced - my "rejoicing" (Jeremiah 15:16) was not that of the profane mockers (Psalms 1:1; Psalms 26:4-5; Psalms 35:16, "hypocritical mockers" who sell their raillery for viands) at feasts. So far from having fellowship with these, he was expelled from society, and made to sit "alone," because of his faithful prophecies.
Because of thy hand - i:e., thine inspiration (Isaiah 8:11, "The Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand;" Ezekiel 1:3; Ezekiel 3:14).
Thou hast filled me with indignation. So Jeremiah 6:11, "I am full of the fury of the Lord;" so full was he of the subject (God's "indignation" against the ungodly) with which God had inspired him, as not to be able to contain himself from expressing it. The same comparison by contrast between the effect of inspiration and that of wine, both taking a man out of himself, occurs Acts 2:13; Acts 2:15; Acts 2:18.