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Jeremiah 17:18

World English Bible

Let them be disappointed who persecute me,
but let not 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.

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Jeremiah 17:18 in other translations

Let them be put to shame that persecute me, but let not me be put to shame; let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed; bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

Jeremiah 17:18 · American Standard Version

Jeremiah 17:18 in context

  1. 16As 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.
  2. 17Don’t be a terror to me.
    You are my refuge in the day of evil.
  3. 18Let them be disappointed who persecute me,
    but let not 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.
  4. 19Yahweh 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.
  5. 20Tell them, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, you kings of Judah, all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates: