Jeremiah 18:19-23
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
19 Give heed to me, O Lord,
and listen to what my adversaries say!
20 Is evil a recompense for good?
Yet they have dug a pit for my life.
Remember how I stood before you
to speak good for them,
to turn away your wrath from them.(A)
21 Therefore give their children over to famine;
hurl them out to the power of the sword;
let their wives become childless and widowed.
May their men meet death by pestilence,
their youths be slain by the sword in battle.(B)
22 May a cry be heard from their houses
when you bring the marauder suddenly upon them!
For they have dug a pit to catch me
and laid snares for my feet.(C)
23 Yet you, O Lord, know
all their plotting to kill me.
Do not forgive their iniquity;
do not blot out their sin from your sight.
Let them be tripped up before you;
deal with them while you are angry.(D)
Jeremiah 18:19-23
Lexham English Bible
19 Listen attentively to me, O Yahweh,
and listen to the voice of my opponents.
20 Should good be repaid in place of evil?
Yet they have dug a pit for me.
Remember my standing before you[a] to speak good for them,
to avert your wrath from them.
21 Therefore[b] give their children to the famine,
and hand them over to the power[c] of the sword,
and let their wives be bereaved and widows,
and let their men be killed by death,
their young men struck dead
by the sword in the battle.
22 Let a cry for help be heard from their houses
when you suddenly bring upon them the raiding band,
for they have dug a pit to catch me,
and they have fixed secretly a trap for my feet.
23 But you, O Yahweh, you know
all their plans of assassination against me.[d]
You must not make atonement for their iniquity,
and you must not cause their sin to be blotted out from before you.[e]
But let them be overthrown before you.[f]
Deal with them in the time of your anger.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 18:20 Literally “to the face of you”
- Jeremiah 18:21 Literally “To thus”
- Jeremiah 18:21 Literally “hand”
- Jeremiah 18:23 Literally “all of their plan against me to the death”
- Jeremiah 18:23 Literally “to the face of you”
- Jeremiah 18:23 Literally “to the face of you”
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