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Jeremiah 17:18

New American Bible - revised edition

Let my persecutors be confounded—not me! let them be terrified—not me! Bring upon them the day of disaster, crush them with double destruction. Observance of the Sabbath.

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He pierces me, thrust upon thrust, rushes at me like a warrior.

Let those who seek my life be put to shame and disgrace. Let those who plot evil against me be turned back and confounded.

Let ruin overtake them unawares; let the snare they have set catch them; let them fall into the pit they have dug.

Lord, graciously rescue me! Come quickly to help me, Lord!

Graciously rescue me, God! Come quickly to help me, Lord!

In you, Lord, I take refuge; let me never be put to shame.

But you, prepare yourself; stand up and tell them all that I command you. Do not be terrified on account of them, or I will terrify you before them;

But, you, Lord of hosts, just Judge, searcher of mind and heart, Let me witness the vengeance you take on them, for to you I have entrusted my cause!

Lord, you know me, you see me, you have found that my heart is with you. Pick them out like sheep for the butcher, set them apart for the day of slaughter.

Speak to them this word: Let my eyes stream with tears night and day, without rest, Over the great destruction which overwhelms the virgin daughter of my people, over her incurable wound.

I will at once repay them double for their crime and their sin because they profaned my land with the corpses of their detestable idols, and filled my heritage with their abominations.

O Hope of Israel, Lord! all who forsake you shall be put to shame; The rebels shall be enrolled in the netherworld; they have forsaken the Lord, source of living waters.

Yet I did not press you to send disaster; the day without remedy I have not desired. You know what passed my lips; it is present before you.

Thus said the Lord to me: Go, stand at the Gate of Benjamin, where the kings of Judah enter and leave, and at the other gates of Jerusalem.

But the Lord is with me, like a mighty champion: my persecutors will stumble, they will not prevail. In their failure they will be put to utter shame, to lasting, unforgettable confusion.

Bless, Lord, his strength, be pleased with the work of his hands. Crush the loins of his adversaries and of his foes, that they may not rise.

Pay her back as she has paid others. Pay her back double for her deeds. Into her cup pour double what she poured.




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