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Jeremiah 17:18 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but don’t let me be disappointed. Let them be dismayed, but don’t let me be dismayed. Bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction. "

Jeremiah 17:18

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16 As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you. I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know. That which came out of my lips was before your face.

17 Don’t be a terror to me. You are my refuge in the day of evil.

18 Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but don’t let me be disappointed. Let them be dismayed, but don’t let me be dismayed. Bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

19 The LORD said this to me: “Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem.

20 Tell them, ‘Hear the LORD’s word, you kings of Judah, all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:

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Psalms 40:14

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"But the LORD is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten."

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"Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish."

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Jeremiah 18:23

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"Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to kill me. Don’t forgive their iniquity. Don’t blot out their sin from your sight, Let them be overthrown before you. Deal with them in the time of your anger."

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"Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, the LORD will be a light to me."

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Jeremiah 17:1

"“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond. It is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars."

Jeremiah 17:2

"Even their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles by the green trees on the high hills."

Jeremiah 17:3

"My mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures for a plunder, and your high places, because of sin, throughout all your borders."

Jeremiah 17:4

"You, even of yourself, will discontinue from your heritage that I gave you. I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you don’t know, for you have kindled a fire in my anger which will burn forever.”"

Jeremiah 17:5

"The LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from the LORD."

Jeremiah 17:6

"For he will be like a bush in the desert, and will not see when good comes, but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, an uninhabited salt land."

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