Jeremiah’s response to Judah’s stubborn rejection of the Lord’s word is to be full of the wrath of the Lord.
The meaning here could be that Jeremiah senses the Lord’s anger as if it is his own, or that he was overwhelmed by a godly anger at his people’s refusal to hear his warnings and respond. For the Lord’s true prophet there is not much distinction between these two meanings. Either way, he is so full of the wrath of the Lord
that he is weary of holding it in.
He compares himself to a container that can no longer hold what is inside. As intense and justified as the anger is, Jeremiah is still reluctant for it to be poured out onto his people. He longs to have a different message.1
11 Therefore I am full of the wrath of the LORD; I am weary of holding it in. “Pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the gatherings of young men, also; both husband and wife shall be taken, the elderly and the very aged.