Jeremiah 15:11

Protection and safety

⁹ She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.

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.

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 thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: The LORD said: “Surely I will deliver you for a good purpose; surely I will intercede with your enemy in your time of trouble, in your time of distress.
KJV: 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.
WEB: The LORD said, “Most certainly I will strengthen you for good. Most certainly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
ASV: Jehovah said, Verily I will strengthen thee for good; verily I will cause the enemy to make supplication unto thee in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
DARBY: Jehovah said, Verily I will set thee free for [thy] good; verily I will cause the enemy to meet thee kindly in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
BLB: YHWH said “Truly: With your remnant it will be well, truly have I not interceded with the enemy for you in the time of adversity and in the time of distress?

ÅB: Herren sa: Jeg vil befri deg, så det går deg vel; jeg vil la fiendene dine bønnfalle deg i ulykkens og nødens tid.
OTB: Herren sa: “Jeg vil sannelig befri deg for et godt formål; jeg vil få dine fiender til å bønnfalle deg i tider med katastrofe og nød.
B1930: Herren sa: Visselig, jeg vil fri dig ut, så det går dig vel; visselig, jeg vil la dine fiender bønnfalle dig i ulykkens og nødens tid.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Proverbs 16:7
When a man’s ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
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Jeremiah 29:11–14
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
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Psalms 106:46
He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.
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Psalms 37:3–11
Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
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Ecclesiastes 8:12
Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:
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Jeremiah 37:3
And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto the LORD our God for us.
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Jeremiah 21:2
Enquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.
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Jeremiah 40:2–6
And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place.
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