Jeremiah 18:23
But thou, O Lord, knowest all their counsel against me unto death: forgive not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from thy sight: let them be overthrown before thy eyes, in the time of thy wrath do thou destroy them.
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Psalms 35:4Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek after my soul. Let them be turned back and be confounded that devise against me.
Psalms 56:8for nothing shalt thou save them: in thy anger thou shalt break the people in pieces, O God,
Psalms 69:22And they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Isaiah 2:9And man hath bowed himself down, and man hath been debased: therefore forgive them not.
Jeremiah 8:12They are confounded, because they have committed abomination: yea rather they are not confounded with confusion, and they have not know how to blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall; in the time of their visitation they shall fall, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 11:23And there shall be no remains of them: for I will bring in evil upon the men of Anathoth, 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 →