Jeremiah 15:11

"So be it, Lord, when they set straight their way; did I not stand by you in the time of their evils?" What is "So be it, Lord"? Let the one who is able gather such a meaning for himself. [The "So be it"—] "Master, Lord, when they set straight their way"—may the strength that fails among those who curse come to be, when, having repented after speaking evil of me, they turn to the straight path and travel it. "So be it, Master, when they set straight their way; did I not stand by you?" Then he pleads his cause concerning those who speak evil of him, saying: "Did I not stand by you in the time of their evils?" He stood by the Father, ⟨being a propitiation for our sins,⟩ and interceded concerning them in that very time of our evils. For he did not stand by after the time of our evils, but "while we were yet sinners Christ died for us"—"Did I not stand by you in the time of their evils, in the time of their afflictions, for good against the enemy?" And in the time of their affliction, he says, of the affliction against the enemy, I stood by you on their behalf. And who is the enemy but "our adversary the devil," who afflicted us? And clearly in the time of that one's enmity against men, our Savior stood by the Father and made petition concerning our captivity, that we might be ransomed and rescued from the enemy. Let the Savior, or the prophet, have said these things; for the prophet too can have said such things and have prayed on behalf of the people in the "time of their evils."

(Verse 11) The Lord says: If your remnants are not for good, if I do not come to you in the time of affliction and in the time of tribulation and anguish against the enemy. These things can also be understood from the perspective of Jeremiah, who was compelled to prophesy in the worst of times, with captivity imminent, and enduring hardship from an unbelieving people. In response to what he had said before: Woe to me, mother! Why have you birthed me as a man who judges? And I will be distinguished among all the lands and the rest, the Lord answered: Do not consider the present, but the future; for your remnants and last shall be for good. Moreover, in the present when your enemies sought to oppress you, I was with you, and you were protected by my help. This can also be referred to Jeremiah, as well as to the dispensation of the assumed flesh, to the Savior. Because according to the Hebrew interpretation, we have translated it as: All curse me, to the point where it is written, in the time of tribulation against the enemy, in the Vulgate edition it is written as follows: My strength has failed in those who curse me; may it be, O Lord, for those who direct them, if you did not stand by you in their time of affliction, and in their time of tribulation, in good against the enemy. And the meaning is: My strength is weakened in those who curse me. For they do not understand my virtue, which is perfected in weakness, and the more they curse me, the more my strength diminishes in them. And either the Prophet or the Lord joins in, and says: Let it be, Lord ((or Lord)), for those who direct them, that is, let the curses that the enemies speak against me happen to me; and may they be directed to good, if not in the time of their tribulations and distress, when the enemy was ravaging them and hastening to capture them, I stood before you and interceded for them, and I said: Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing (Luke 23:34). But we often find that Jeremiah also prayed for the people in this volume.