Jeremiah 15:18-20

International Children’s Bible

¹⁸I don’t understand why my pain has no end.
I don’t understand why my injury is not cured or healed!
Lord, will you be like a brook that goes dry?
Will you be like a spring whose water stops flowing?

¹⁹So this is what the Lord says:

“If you change your heart and come back to me, I will take you back.
    Then you may serve me.
You must speak things that have worth.
    You must not speak useless words.
    Then you may speak for me.
Let the people of Judah turn to you.
    But you must not change and be like them.
²⁰I will make you as strong as a wall to this people.
    You will be as strong as a wall of bronze.
They will fight against you.
    But they will not defeat you.
This is because I am with you.
    I will rescue you and save you,” says the Lord.