Jeremiah 18:20
Shall euill be recompensed for good? for they haue digged a pit for my soule: remember that I stood before thee, to speake good for the, and to turne away thy wrath from them.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
19Hearken vnto mee, O Lord, and heare the voyce of them that contend with me.
Cross References
Genesis 18:22And the men turned thence and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stoode yet before the Lord.
Job 6:27Ye make your wrath to fall vpon the fatherlesse, and dig a pit for your friende.
Psalms 35:7For without cause they haue hid the pit and their net for me: without cause haue they digged a pit for my soule.
Psalms 38:20They also, that rewarde euill for good, are mine aduersaries, because I follow goodnesse.
Psalms 106:23Therefore he minded to destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stand in the breach before him to turne away his wrath, least he shoulde destroy them.
Psalms 109:5And they haue rewarded me euil for good, and hatred for my friendship.
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 →