Lest to their face I dismay thee.

See I have thee set this day

A fenced city and walls of bronze

To the kings and princes of Judah,

Her priests and the folk of the land;

They shall fight but master thee never,

For with thee am I to deliver—

Rede of the Lord.[135]

Jeremiah was silenced and went forth to his ministry—the Word upon his lips and the Lord by his side.

Two further observations are natural.