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Jeremiah’s Complaint

10 How terrible for me, my mother,
    that you gave birth to me,
a man of strife and contention for the whole land!
    I’ve neither lent nor borrowed,
        yet everyone curses me.

God’s Answer to Jeremiah’s Complaint

11 The Lord said,

“Have I not set you free
    for a good purpose?
Have I not intervened for you with your enemies
    in times of trouble and times of distress?

12 “Can anyone break iron—
    iron from the north—or bronze?

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