Jeremiah 17:16
As for me, I have not hastened from a pastor to follow you: neither have I desired the woeful day; you knowest: that which came out of my lips was before you.
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Context
14 Heal me, O Yahuah, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you my praise.
15 Behold, they say unto me, Where the word of the Yahuah? let it come now.
16 As for me, I have not hastened from a pastor to follow you: neither have I desired the woeful day; you knowest: that which came out of my lips was before you.
17 Be not a terror unto me: you my hope in the day of evil.
18 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.