Jeremiah 17:16 meaning and explanation

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.

Jeremiah 17:16, Berean Standard Bible

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Jeremiah is speaking to God in the middle of a hard ministry. The people have mocked his warnings and demanded, in the previous verse, that the promised judgment hurry up and come.

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