Jeremiah 18:20

Forasmuch as evil is rewarded for good; for they have spoken words against my soul, and they have hidden the punishment they meant for me; remember that I stood before thy face, to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

19Hear me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my pleading.

21Therefore do thou deliver their sons to famine, and gather them to the power of the sword: let their women be childless and widows; and let their men be cut off by death, and their young men fall by the sword in war.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:22And the men having departed thence, came to Sodom; and Abraham was still standing before the Lord.

Job 6:27Even because ye attack the fatherless, 1 And insult your friend. 1

Psalms 35:7Thy righteousness is as the mountains of God, 1 Thy judgments are as a great deep: 1 O Lord, thou wilt preserve men and beasts. 1

Psalms 106:23They that go down to the sea in ships, 1 Doing business in many waters; 1

Psalms 109:5The Lord at thy right hand has dashed in pieces kings in the day of his wrath. 1

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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