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Atomic Bible
Jeremiah 17:18
Let my persecutors be put to shame,
from Jeremiah’s Prayer for Deliverance, Jeremiah 17:12-18
What it says

Jeremiah asks that persecutors be shamed, dismayed, and broken by disaster while he is spared.

What it is doing

This verse closes the prayer with a request for just reversal.

In context

12A glorious throne, exalted from the beginning, 13O LORD, the hope of Israel, 14Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; 15Behold, they keep saying to me, 16But I have not run away from being Your shepherd; 17Do not become a terror to me; 18Let my persecutors be put to shame,