Jeremiah 17:15-17

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁵ See how they say to me,
    “Where is the word of the Lord?
    Let it come!”
¹⁶ But I have not run away from being a shepherd^[a] in your service,
    nor have I desired the fatal day.
You know what came from my lips;
    it was before your face.
¹⁷ Do not become a terror to me;
    you are my refuge in the day of disaster;