Sitting in the midst of the ruins of Jerusalem after it was destroyed by the Babylonians, Jeremiah would have heard many complaints. This verse gives us God's response to many of them. This a universe of groans. The natural creation groans under the curse inflicted because of man's sin. "For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now," Romans 8:22. The saints groan under the distress that sins brings to them and with a longing to be free of this world. "And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body," Romans 8:23. "For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven," The loudest groans comes from sinful man. Complaints fill the air. Many are justifiable. Most are not. Man's treatment of his fellow man certainly arouses complaint. Man steals from man, cheats on man, is cruel to man, acts as a tyrant to his fellows. The man who complains against another is usually the subject of the complaints of a third. It is a world of bitter accusation and counter-accusation.