Jeremiah 18:23
Yet thou, Lord, knowest well all their counsel against me to [procure my] death: forgive not their iniquity, and let their sin not be blotted out from before thee; but let them be brought to stumbling before thee; in the time of thy anger deal thus with them.
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Psalms 35:4Let those be put to shame and be confounded that seek after my life: let those be turned backward and be made to blush, that devise unhappiness for me.
Psalms 56:8(56:9) My wanderings hast thou well numbered: put thou my tears into thy bottle; behold, they are numbered by thee.
Psalms 69:22(69:23) May [then] their table become a snare before them: and to those that are at peace, a trap.
Isaiah 2:9And so is bent down the son of earth, and humbled the man; and thou wilt not forgive them.
Jeremiah 8:12They should have been ashamed, because they had committed abomination; but they neither felt the least shame, nor did they know how to blush: therefore shall they fall among those that fall; at the time of their punishment shall they stumble, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 11:23And no remnant shall remain of them; for I will bring evil upon the men of 'Anathoth, in the year of their punishment.
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 →