Jeremiah 15:16-18

Easy-to-Read Version

¹⁶ Your words came to me, and I ate them up.
    They made me very happy.
I was glad to be called by your name,
    Lord God All-Powerful.
¹⁷ I never sat with the crowd
    as they laughed and had fun.
I sat by myself because of your influence on me.
    You filled me with anger at the evil around me.
¹⁸ I don’t understand why I still hurt.
    I don’t understand why my wound is not cured and cannot be healed.
I think you have changed.
    You are like a spring of water that became dry.
    You are like a spring whose water has stopped flowing.