Jeremiah 20:13
Sing to the LORD! Praise the LORD, for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers.
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
14Cursed is the day in which I was born. Don’t let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
Cross References
Psalms 34:6This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
Psalms 35:10All my bones shall say, “LORD, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”
Psalms 72:4He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.
Isaiah 25:4For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.
James 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 20:8-14
The Prophet's Impatient Appeal. ( b. c. 600.) 7 O Lord , thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me. 8 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the Lord was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily. 9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing,… Read the whole commentary →