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Jeremiah 17:18

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Keep me from failure and disgrace, but make my enemies fail and be disgraced. Send destruction to make their worst fears come true.

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Let all who want to kill me be disappointed and disgraced. Chase away and confuse all who plan to harm me.

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

I prayed, “LORD All-Powerful, you always do what is right, and you know every thought. So I trust you to help me and to take revenge.”

Disappoint and confuse all who want me dead; turn away and disgrace all who want to hurt me.

Surprise them with disaster! Trap them in their own nets and let them fall and rot in the pits they have dug.

Treat her as she has treated others. Make her pay double for what she has done. Make her drink twice as much of what she mixed for others.

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.

I will punish you double for your sins, because you have made my own land disgusting. You have filled it with lifeless idols that remind me of dead bodies.

I run to you, LORD, for protection. Don't disappoint me.

Disappoint and confuse all who want to kill me. Turn away and disgrace all who want to hurt me.

God never stops attacking,

Jeremiah, go and tell the people how you feel about all this. So I told them: “Tears will flood my eyes both day and night, because my nation suffers from a deadly wound.

Jeremiah, get ready! Go and tell the people what I command you to say. Don't be frightened by them, or I will make you terrified while they watch.

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

You are a spring of water giving Israel life and hope. But if the people reject what you have told me, they will be swept away like words written in dust.

The LORD said: Jeremiah, stand at each city gate in Jerusalem, including the one the king uses, and speak to him and everyone else. Tell them I have said: I am the LORD, so pay attention.

I pray that the LORD will bless everything you do, and make you strong enough to crush your enemies.




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