Jeremiah 17:17-20

Contemporary English Version

¹⁷I trust you for protection
in times of trouble,
    so don't frighten me.
¹⁸Keep me from failure
    and disgrace,
but make my enemies fail
    and be disgraced.
Send destruction to make
    their worst fears come true.

Resting on the Sabbath

^19-20The 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.

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Jeremiah 17:17-19

New International Version

¹⁷Do not be a terror^(A) to me;
    you are my refuge^(B) in the day of disaster.^(C)
¹⁸Let my persecutors be put to shame,
    but keep me from shame;
let them be terrified,
    but keep me from terror.
Bring on them the day of disaster;
    destroy them with double destruction.^(D)

Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy

¹⁹This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and stand at the Gate of the People,^[a] through which the kings of Judah go in and out; stand also at all the other gates of Jerusalem.^(E)

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