16. Yet I didn’t urge you to bring disaster;I didn’t want the calamity to happen.You know what comes out of my mouth;it’s always before you.
17. Don’t terrorize me;you are my refuge in time of disaster.
18. Let my tormentors be disgraced, but not me;let them be terrorized, but not me.Bring on them the time of disaster,as they deserve; destroy them repeatedly.
19. The Lord proclaimed to me: Go and stand by the People’s Gate where Judah’s kings go in and out, and then by all the gates of Jerusalem,