Jeremiah 17:15 - Exposition

The occasion of this prayer is the hostility of his neighbors, and their mocking question, Where is the word of the Lord? The prophecy seems to be floating as it were in mid-air, unable to alight ( Isaiah 9:8 ) and fulfill itself, so that Jeremiah could be plausibly treated as a false prophet ( Deuteronomy 18:22 ). Hence, as Keil remarks, the discourse of which this forms the conclusion must have been spoken before the first Babylonian invasion of Judah.