Jeremiah 18:19
17 I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”
18 Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
Attend to me, O LORD. Hear what my accusers are saying!
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.
21 Therefore, 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.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Attend to me, O LORD. Hear what my accusers are saying!
- KJV
- Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
- WEB
- Give heed to me, LORD, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.
- ASV
- Give heed to me, O Jehovah, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
- DARBY
- Jehovah, give heed to me, and listen to the voice of those that contend with me.
- BLB
- Pay attention, O YHWH, to me, and listen to the voice of my opponents!
- ÅB
- Akt på meg, Herre, og hør hvordan de strider mot meg!
- OTB
- Hør meg, Herre, og lytt til hva mine motstandere sier!
- B1930
- Akt på mig, Herre, og hør hvorledes de strider mot mig!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Nehemiah 6:9
For they were all trying to frighten us, saying, “Their hands will be weakened in the work, and it will never be finished.” But now, my God, strengthen my hands.
Read in contextPsalms 55:16–17
But I call to God, and the LORD saves me.
Read in contextMicah 7:8
Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.
Read in contextPsalms 109:28
Though they curse, You will bless. When they rise up, they will be put to shame, but Your servant will rejoice.
Read in contextJeremiah 20:12
O LORD of Hosts, who examines the righteous, who sees the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.
Read in context2 Kings 19:16
Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.
Read in contextLuke 6:11–12
But the scribes and Pharisees were filled with rage and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus.
Read in contextPsalms 109:4
In return for my love they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.
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