Jeremiah 18:20

Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.

Majority Standard Bible

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. Hear what my accusers are saying!

21Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:22And the two men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD.

Job 6:27You would even cast lots for an orphan and barter away your friend.

Psalms 35:7For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul.

Psalms 38:20Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good.

Psalms 106:23So He said He would destroy them—had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.

Psalms 109:5They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

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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