Jeremiah 15:16-18

International Children’s Bible

¹⁶ Your words came to me, and I listened carefully to them.
    Your words made me very happy.
I was happy because I am called by your name.
    Your name is the Lord God of heaven’s armies.
¹⁷ I never sat with the crowd
    as they laughed and had fun.
I sat by myself because you were there.
    You filled me with anger at the evil around me.
¹⁸ I don’t understand why my pain has no end.
    I don’t understand why my injury is not cured or healed!
Lord, will you be like a brook that goes dry?
    Will you be like a spring whose water stops flowing?