The New life in Christ: O LORD, for to you I have committed my cause. Jeremiah 20:12.

For I hear many whispering;

“Terror is all around!”

All my close friends are watching for me to stumble.

“Perhaps he can be enticed,

and we can prevail against him,

and take our revenge on him.”

But the LORD is with me like a dread warrior;

therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they will not prevail.

They will be greatly shamed, for they will not succeed.

Their, eternal dishonor

will never be forgotten.

O LORD of hosts, you test the righteous,

you see the heart and the mind;

let me see your retribution upon them.

For he has delivered the life of the needy from the hands of evildoers. Jeremiah 20:10-13. Amen.