Jeremiah 17:16-18

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

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;
¹⁸ Let my persecutors be shamed,
    but do not let me be shamed;
let them be dismayed,
    but do not let me be dismayed;
bring on them the day of disaster;
    destroy them with double destruction!