Jeremiah 17:17-19

Living Bible

¹⁷Lord, don’t desert me now! You alone are my hope. ¹⁸Bring confusion and trouble on all who persecute me, but give me peace. Yes, bring double destruction upon them!

¹⁹Then the Lord said to me, Go and stand in the gates of Jerusalem, first at the gate where the king goes out, and then at each of the other gates,

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Jeremiah 17:17-19

New International Version

¹⁷Do not be a terror^(A) to me;
    you are my refuge^(B) in the day of disaster.^(C)
¹⁸Let my persecutors be put to shame,
    but keep me from shame;
let them be terrified,
    but keep me from terror.
Bring on them the day of disaster;
    destroy them with double destruction.^(D)

Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy

¹⁹This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and stand at the Gate of the People,^[a] through which the kings of Judah go in and out; stand also at all the other gates of Jerusalem.^(E)

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