Jeremiah 18:20

Should evil be rendered for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul! Remember that I have stood in your sight, so as to speak on their behalf for good, and to avert your indignation from them.

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In The King James Version

Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.

In Context

19Attend to me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my adversaries.

21Because of this, give their sons over to famine, and bring them to the hand of the sword. Let their wives be widows without children. And let their husbands be slain by death. Let their youths be stabbed with the sword in battle.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:22And they turned themselves from there, and they went toward Sodom. Yet in truth, Abraham still stood in the sight of the Lord.

Job 6:27You encroach upon the orphan, and you strive to undermine your friend.

Psalms 35:7Your justice is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are a great abyss. Men and beasts, you will save, O Lord.

Psalms 106:23Those who descend to the sea in ships, making their livelihood in the great waters:

Psalms 109:5The Lord is at your right hand. He has broken kings in the day of his wrath.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 18:19-23

Conduct of Persecutors; Prophetic Imprecations. ( b. c. 600.) 18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words. 19 Give heed to me, O Lord , and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me. 20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before… Read the whole commentary →

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