Jeremiah 1:16-18

New Catholic Bible

¹⁶ I will issue my judgments against them
    for all their wickedness in abandoning me,
in offering sacrifices to other gods
    and worshiping what their hands have fashioned.
¹⁷ As for you, be prepared for action;
    stand up and tell them
    everything that I command you.
Do not have any fear of them
    or I will make you cringe in terror before them.
¹⁸ For this very day
    I have made you into a fortified city,
a pillar of iron, a wall of bronze,
    to overcome the entire country—
the kings and the princes of Judah,
    its priests and its people.