Jeremiah 17:16-18

New Catholic Bible

¹⁶ I have never tried to avoid
    being a shepherd in your service,
    nor have I desired the clay of despair.
Every word that passed my lips
    has always been known to you.
¹⁷ Do not become a source of terror to me;
    you will be my refuge on the day of disaster.
¹⁸ Let my persecutors be confounded, and not me;
    let them, not me, be terrified.
Bring upon them the day of disaster;
    crush them with unending destruction.