In Jeremiah, chapter fifteen, verse ten, “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 to me usury, nor men have lent to me usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.” Jeremiah complained to the Lord that all the people of the land were cursing him.
The Lord responded by telling him that when the judgment came, his enemies would plead with him for help, as in the following verses eleven through fourteen. “The Lord said, Verily it shall be well with my remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to retreat thee well in the time of evil, and in the time of affliction. Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel? Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders. And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into the land which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.” Other reference verses are in chapter twenty-one, verses one through seven, chapter thirty-seven, verses one to ten and seventeen through twenty, chapter thirty-eight, verses fourteen to eighteen.
Jeremiah met with much contempt and reproach when they ought to have blessed him, and God for him. It is a great and sufficient support to the people of God, that however troublesome their way may be, it shall be well with them in their latter end. God turns to the people. Shall the most hardy and vigorous of their efforts be able to contend with the counsel of God, or with the army of the Chaldeans? Let them hear their doom by God’s prophet.