Jeremiah 17:16-18

The Voice

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.