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15 See how they harass me:
    “Where’s the Lord’s word?
        Let it come now!”
16 Yet I didn’t urge you to bring disaster;[a]
    I didn’t want the calamity to happen.
You know what comes out of my mouth;
    it’s always before you.
17 Don’t terrorize me;
    you are my refuge in time of disaster.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 17:16 LXX; Heb uncertain

15 They keep saying to me,
    “Where is the word of the Lord?
    Let it now be fulfilled!”(A)
16 I have not run away from being your shepherd;
    you know I have not desired the day of despair.
    What passes my lips(B) is open before you.
17 Do not be a terror(C) to me;
    you are my refuge(D) in the day of disaster.(E)

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