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Jeremiah 15:15

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

You can see how I suffer insult after insult, all because of you, LORD. Don't be so patient with my enemies; take revenge on them before they kill me.

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I ordered the Levites to make themselves holy and to guard the gates on the Sabbath, so that it would be kept holy. God is truly merciful, and I pray that he will treat me with kindness and bless me for doing this.

I also arranged for the people to bring firewood to the altar each day and for them to bring the first part of their harvest to the temple. I pray that God will bless me for the good I have done.

I pray that God will bless me for everything I have done for my people.

Then I asked God to punish Tobiah and Sanballat for what they had done. I prayed that God would punish the prophet Noadiah and the other prophets who, together with her, had tried to frighten me.

You know I am innocent, but who can defend me against you?

You will live for ever! Years mean nothing to you. Don't cut my life in half!

Remember me, LORD, when you show kindness by saving your people.

I am your servant! How long must I suffer? When will you punish those troublemakers?

You know my heart, and even during the night you have tested me and found me innocent. I have made up my mind never to tell a lie.

Stop being angry with me and let me smile again before I am dead and gone.”

We face death all day for you. We are like sheep on their way to be slaughtered.

“Don't forget that I have been faithful to you, LORD. I have obeyed you with all my heart, and I do whatever you say is right.” After this, he cried hard.

But you know, LORD, how faithful I've always been, even in my thoughts. So drag my enemies away and butcher them like sheep!

I wish I had never been born! I'm always in trouble with everyone in Judah. I never lend or borrow money, but everyone curses me just the same.

because I am making you strong, like a bronze wall. They are evil and violent, but when they attack, I will be there to rescue you. I, the LORD, have spoken.

Our LORD, you chose me to care for your people, and that's what I have done. You know everything I have said, and I have never once asked you to punish them.

You know they plan to kill me. So get angry and punish them! Don't ever forgive their terrible crimes.

But you, LORD, are a mighty soldier, standing at my side. Those troublemakers will fall down and fail— terribly embarrassed, for ever ashamed.

LORD All-Powerful, you test those who do right, and you know every heart and mind. I have told you my complaints, so let me watch you take revenge on my enemies.

You have let me announce only destruction and death. Your message has brought me nothing but insults and trouble.

Pay them back for everything they have done, LORD!

Get angry and go after them until not a trace is left under the heavens.

Everyone will hate you because of me. But if you remain faithful until the end, you will be saved.

All who have given up home or brothers and sisters or father and mother or children or land for me will be given a hundred times as much. They will also have eternal life.

Because of me, you will be hated by everyone.

Dear friends, don't try to get even. Let God take revenge. In the Scriptures the Lord says, “I am the one to take revenge and pay them back.”

Can anything separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble, suffering, and hard times, or hunger and nakedness, or danger and death?

We know what it means to respect the Lord, and we encourage everyone to turn to him. God himself knows what we are like, and I hope you also know what kind of people we are.

Alexander, the metalworker, has hurt me in many ways. But the Lord will pay him back for what he has done.

The heavens should be happy with God's people and apostles and prophets. God has punished her for them.”

They shouted, “Master, you are holy and faithful! How long will it be before you judge and punish the people of this earth who killed us?”

Samson prayed, “Please remember me, LORD God. The Philistines put out my eyes, but make me strong one last time, so I can take revenge for at least one of my eyes!”




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