Jeremiah 16:19

(Verse 19) Lord, you are my strength and my refuge in the day of trouble (or evil). All human strength, without the power of God, which is Christ, is considered weak and worthless. Therefore, we must turn to the Lord and say: Lord, you have become our refuge, from generation to generation (Psalm 89:1). And in another place: Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty (Psalm 91:1).

"Lord, my strength and my help and my refuge in the day of evils; to you the nations shall come from the end of the earth and shall say: As false things did our fathers acquire idols, and there is no profit in them." From the end of the earth the nations came to God, and the nations have said: "As false things did our fathers acquire idols, and there is no profit in them"? How "from the end of the earth"? There are some who are first of the earth and there are some who are last of the earth. Who are the first? "The wise of the world" are first of the earth, not simply first; "the wise of the world, the well-born," the rich, the men of rank. Who are the last? "The foolish things of the world God has chosen, the base things, the things despised, the things that are not." "The nations shall come," then, "from the end of the earth," as if he said: from the last of the human beings on earth, from the foolish, from the base, from the despised, "and they shall say: As false things did our fathers acquire idols, and there is no profit in them." Not that there are some true idols, in contradistinction to which the false ones are spoken of, but idols which are by nature false; "and there is no profit in them."

For I am very much God's debtor, who gave me such great grace that many people were reborn in God through me and afterwards confirmed, and that clerics were ordained for them everywhere, for a people just coming to the faith, whom the Lord took …

Having been brought near, they make Christ their glorying. For again, God the Father has said of them, "And I will strengthen them in the Lord their God, and in his name shall they glory, says the Lord." This also the blessed psalmist teaches, speaking as it were to Christ the Savior of all and saying, "Lord, they shall walk in the light of your countenance, and in your name shall they exult all the day, and in your righteousness shall they be exalted. For you are the glorying of their strength." We shall find also the prophet Jeremiah calling out to God, "Lord, my strength and my help, and my refuge in the day of my evils, to You shall the heathen come from the ends of the earth, and say, 'Our fathers took for themselves false idols, in which there is no help.' "

"As in the provocation, and in the day of temptation in the wilderness, where your fathers proved Me." Let such be no more your fathers: imitate them not. They were your fathers, but if ye do not imitate them, they shall not be your fathers: yet as ye were born of them, they were your fathers. And if the heathen who came from the ends of the earth, in the words of Jeremias, "The Gentiles shall come unto Thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our forefathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit:" if the heathen forsook their idols, to come to the God of Israel; ought Israel whom their own God led from Egypt through the Red Sea, wherein He overwhelmed their pursuing foes; whom He led out into the wilderness, fed with manna, never took His rod from correcting them, never deprived them of the blessings of His mercy; ought they to desert their own God, when the heathen have come unto Him?