Jeremiah 17:12-18

The Voice

¹² Jeremiah (to God): But from the beginning, Your throne of glory,
        our holy place, has always been exalted.
¹³     O Eternal One, the hope of Israel,
        all who forsake You will be put to shame.
    Those who turn their backs on You will be written in the dirt,
        because they have forsaken You, the spring of living water.
¹⁴     Heal me, O Eternal One, and I will be healed.
        You alone can save me; to You alone do I sing my praise.
¹⁵     The scoffers keep mocking me, saying,
        “Where is the word of the Eternal you keep talking about?
        Why haven’t His words come to pass?”
¹⁶     You know I have not run from my calling—
        I have been a shepherd to Your people as You commanded.
        I have not secretly desired the day of disaster and sorrow.
    You know everything I’ve spoken to these people,
        because it was the task You’d set before me.
¹⁷     Do not turn and terrify me.
        Be my refuge when the dreaded day of reckoning comes.
¹⁸     Bring shame on those who persecute me, but save me from that shame.
        Bring terror on them, but save me from that terror.
        Bring them to the day of disaster; shatter them, destroy them with double the destruction.