Jeremiah 15:15-18

New International Version

¹⁵Lord, you understand;
    remember me and care for me.
    Avenge me on my persecutors.^(A)
You are long-suffering^(B)—do not take me away;
    think of how I suffer reproach for your sake.^(C)
¹⁶When your words came, I ate^(D) them;
    they were my joy and my heart’s delight,^(E)
for I bear your name,^(F)
    Lord God Almighty.
¹⁷I never sat^(G) in the company of revelers,
    never made merry with them;
I sat alone because your hand^(H) was on me
    and you had filled me with indignation.
¹⁸Why is my pain unending
    and my wound grievous and incurable?^(I)
You are to me like a deceptive brook,
    like a spring that fails.^(J)

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Jeremiah 15:15-18

New King James Version

¹⁵O Lord, ^(A)You know;
Remember me and ^[a]visit me,
And ^(B)take vengeance for me on my persecutors.
In Your enduring patience, do not take me away.
Know that ^(C)for Your sake I have suffered rebuke.
¹⁶Your words were found, and I ^(D)ate them,
And ^(E)Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart;
For I am called by Your name,
O Lord God of hosts.
¹⁷^(F)I did not sit in the assembly of the mockers,
Nor did I rejoice;
I sat alone because of Your hand,
For You have filled me with indignation.
¹⁸Why is my ^(G)pain perpetual
And my wound incurable,
Which refuses to be healed?
Will You surely be to me ^(H)like an unreliable stream,
As waters that ^[b]fail?