Charles Spurgeon Commentary Jeremiah 30:12-14

"For thus saith Jehovah, Thy hurt is incurable, and thy wound grievous. There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines. All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not: for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of thine iniquity, because thy sins were increased." — Jeremiah 30:12-14 (ASV)

For thus says the LORD, Your bruise is incurable, and your wound is grievous. There is none to plead your cause, that you may be bound up: you have no healing medicines. All your lovers have forgotten you; they seek you not; for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of your iniquity; because your sins were increased.

God never gave His people permission to sin; and sin in them is worse than sin in any other people, for they sin against more light and more love. Therefore, it grieves the Lord all the more, and He strikes all the more heavily. And, note this, when God strikes, there is nobody who can comfort us.

A quaint old writer, whose book I was reading the other day, commented on that part of the parable where the friend, disturbed at midnight, said, "My children are on me in bed; I cannot rise and give you." He wrote something like this: "When God is in bed, none of His children are up to help us; if He does not open the door, none of His saints are there to give us a crust. All must come from Him."

Therefore, we must cry to Him and say, "Awake for my help, O God; for all my lovers have forgotten me; they seek me not in the time of my distress." When God wounds us, people often desert us; and those who seemed to be most fond of us forsake us when God strikes us.