16 But I have not run away from being your shepherd,
and I have not longed for the fatal day.(A)
You know my words were spoken in your presence.
17 Don’t become a terror to me.
You are my refuge(B) in the day of disaster.
18 Let my persecutors be put to shame,(C)
but don’t let me be put to shame.
Let them be terrified, but don’t let me be terrified.
Bring on them the day of disaster;(D)
shatter them with total[a] destruction.

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Footnotes

  1. 17:18 Lit double

16 I have not run away from being your shepherd;
    you know I have not desired the day of despair.
    What passes my lips(A) is open before you.
17 Do not be a terror(B) to me;
    you are my refuge(C) in the day of disaster.(D)
18 Let my persecutors be put to shame,
    but keep me from shame;
let them be terrified,
    but keep me from terror.
Bring on them the day of disaster;
    destroy them with double destruction.(E)

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