Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
thou knowest--namely, my case; what wrongs my adversaries have done me (Jeremiah 12:3).
revenge me--(See on Jeremiah 11:20). The prophet in this had regard to, not his own personal feelings of revenge, but the cause of God; he speaks by inspiration God's will against the ungodly. Contrast in this the law with the gospel (Luke 23:34; Acts 7:60).
take me not away in thy long-suffering--By Thy long-suffering towards them, suffer them not meanwhile to take away my life.
for thy sake I have suffered rebuke--the very words of the antitype, Jesus Christ (Psalms 69:7, Psalms 69:22-28), which last compare with Jeremiah's prayer in the beginning of this verse.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Isaiah 52:13
Jeremiah 17:16
Jeremiah 45:5
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