Bible verse
Behold, they keep saying to me, “Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come now!”
Jeremiah 17:15 · BSB
The verses around it, from Jeremiah 17.
11 Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”
12 A glorious throne, exalted from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.
13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.
14 Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for You are my praise.
15 Behold, they keep saying to me, “Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come now!”
16 But I have not run away from being Your shepherd; I have not desired the day of despair. You know that the utterance of my lips was spoken in Your presence.
17 Do not become a terror to me; You are my refuge in the day of disaster.
18 Let my persecutors be put to shame, but do not let me be put to shame. Let them be terrified, but do not let me be terrified. Bring upon them the day of disaster and shatter them with double destruction.
19 This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and stand at the gate of the people, through which the kings of Judah go in and out; and stand at all the other gates of Jerusalem.
KJV
Behold, they say unto me, Where [is] the word of the LORD? let it come now.
ASV
Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of Jehovah? let it come now.
ERV
Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now.
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