Let them be confounded that persecute me,.... With words with reproaches, with scoffs and jeers, saying, "where is the word of the Lord?" Jer 17:14; let such be ashamed that scoffingly put such a question, by seeing the accomplishment of it:but let not me be confounded; who have delivered it out as the word of the Lord, that should be surely fulfilled; let not me be brought to shame by the failure of it and be reckoned as a false prophet:let them be dismayed; terrified and affrighted when they shall see the judgments of God coming upon them, which they have jeeringly called for:but let not me be dismayed; by their not coming, or when they shall come; but preserve and protect me:bring upon them the day of evil; of punishment; which they put far away, and scoff at; though the prophet did not desire the woeful day to come upon the people in general, yet upon his persecutors in particular.
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Jeremiah 17:18
Jeremiah 17:18
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