Jeremiah 18:23
And thou, Jehovah, knowest all their counsel against me to slay me. Forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee: deal with them in the time of thine anger.
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Psalms 35:4Let them be put to shame and confounded that seek after my life; let them be turned backward and brought to confusion that devise my hurt:
Psalms 56:8*Thou* countest my wanderings; put my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
Psalms 69:22Let their table become a snare before them, and their very welfare a trap;
Isaiah 2:9And the mean man shall be bowed down, and the great man shall be brought low: and do not thou forgive them!
Jeremiah 8:12Are they ashamed that they have committed abomination? Nay, they are not at all ashamed, and they know not how to blush. Therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall stumble, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 11:23and there shall be no remnant of them; for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, in the year of their visitation.
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 →