Jeremiah 17:15-17

The Voice

¹⁵     The scoffers keep mocking me, saying,
        “Where is the word of the Eternal you keep talking about?
        Why haven’t His words come to pass?”
¹⁶     You know I have not run from my calling—
        I have been a shepherd to Your people as You commanded.
        I have not secretly desired the day of disaster and sorrow.
    You know everything I’ve spoken to these people,
        because it was the task You’d set before me.
¹⁷     Do not turn and terrify me.
        Be my refuge when the dreaded day of reckoning comes.