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Atomic Bible
Jeremiah 20:11
But the LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior.
from Jeremiah’s Complaint, Jeremiah 20:7-18
What it says

Yet the LORD is with Jeremiah like a mighty warrior, so his persecutors will stumble and fail in lasting shame.

What it is doing

This verse marks the complaint's sudden turn toward confidence.

In context

7You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. 8For whenever I speak, I cry out; 9If I say, “I will not mention Him 10For I have heard the whispering of many: 11But the LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior. 12O LORD of Hosts, who examines the righteous, 13Sing to the LORD! 14Cursed be the day I was born! 15Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, 16May that man be like the cities 17because he did not kill me in the womb 18Why did I come out of the womb