Jeremiah 18:23
And Thou, O Jehovah, Thou hast known, All their counsel against me [is] for death, Thou dost not cover over their iniquity, Nor their sin from before Thee blottest out, And they are made to stumble before Thee, In the time of Thine anger work against them!
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Psalms 35:4They are ashamed and blush, those seeking my soul, Turned backward and confounded, Those devising my evil.
Psalms 56:8My wandering Thou hast counted, Thou — place Thou my tear in Thy bottle, Are they not in Thy book?
Psalms 69:22Their table before them is for a snare, And for a recompence — for a trap.
Isaiah 2:9And the low boweth down, and the high is humbled, And Thou acceptest them not.
Jeremiah 8:12They were ashamed when they did abomination! Yea, they are not at all ashamed, And blushing they have not known, Therefore, they do fall among falling ones, In the time of their inspection they stumble, said Jehovah.
Jeremiah 11:23And they have no remnant, For I bring evil unto the men of Anathoth, The year of their inspection!'
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 →