Jeremiah 15:11

But Yahweh replied to me, “ Jeremiah, I will take care of you. And at times when your enemies have troubles and disasters, they will come to you and plead for you to help them.”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

In Context

10I said to my mother, “I am very sad; I wish that you had not given birth to me; everyone in this land opposes me and quarrels with me. I am not a person who lends money to people and threatens to sue/harm them if they do not pay me back when they should, and I am not a person who borrows money from others and then refuses to pay it back, but everyone [HYP] curses me.”

12Yahweh also told me to say to the people of Judah, “Your enemies, who are as strong as iron or bronze, will attack you from the north; no one will be able to stop them.

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Cross References

Psalms 106:46He caused all those who had taken the Israelis to Babylonia to ◄feel sorry for/pity► them.

Proverbs 21:1Yahweh controls what kings do [MTY] like he controls how streams flow; he causes kings to do just what he wants them to do.

Jeremiah 21:2“ The army of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon is attacking Judah. Please speak to Yahweh for us. Ask him if he will help us. Perhaps he will force Nebuchadnezzar’s army to leave by performing a miracle for us, like the miracles he performed previously.”

Jeremiah 37:3However, one day King Zedekiah sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the priest, who was the son of Maaseiah, to me. They requested me to pray to Yahweh our God for our nation.

Jeremiah 39:12“Make sure that no one harms him. Take care of him, and do for him whatever he requests you to do.”

Jeremiah 42:2to me. They said, “Please listen to our request and pray to Yahweh our God for all of us. Although we were previously a huge number of people, you can see that now we are only a small number of people who have survived.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 15:11-15

The Prophet's Complaint; The Prophet Assured of His Safety. ( b. c. 606.) 10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me. 11 The Lord said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction. 12 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel? 13 Thy substance and… Read the whole commentary →

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