Jeremiah 18:23

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.

²² Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring raiders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.

But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.
KJV: Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.
WEB: Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to kill me. Don’t forgive their iniquity. Don’t blot out their sin from your sight, Let them be overthrown before you. Deal with them in the time of your anger.
ASV: Yet, Jehovah, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me; forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight; but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thou with them in the time of thine anger.
DARBY: And thou, Jehovah, knowest all their counsel against me to slay me. Forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee: deal with them in the time of thine anger.
BLB: And You, O YHWH, know all their counsel against me to kill [me]. And do not cover over their iniquity, and do not blot out their sin from before Your face; and let them be overthrown before Your face. In the time of Your anger, deal against them.

ÅB: Men du, Herre, kjenner alle deres onde råd mot mitt liv; tilgi dem ikke deres misgjerning og utslett ikke deres synd for ditt åsyn, men styrt dem ned for ditt åsyn! Straff dem på din vredes tid!
OTB: Men Du, Herre, kjenner alle deres planer mot meg for å drepe meg. Tilgi ikke deres misgjerning eller slett ut deres synd fra Ditt åsyn. La dem bli styrtet foran Deg; håndter dem i Din vredes tid.
B1930: Men du, Herre, kjenner alle deres onde råd mot mitt liv; forlat dem ikke deres misgjerning og utslett ikke deres synd for ditt åsyn, men styrt dem ned for ditt åsyn! Straff dem på din vredes tid!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Psalms 35:4
May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to shame; may those who plan to harm me be driven back and confounded.
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Psalms 69:22–28
May their table become a snare; may it be a retribution and a trap.
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Psalms 109:14–15
May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
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Isaiah 2:9
So mankind is brought low, and man is humbled— do not forgive them!
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Nehemiah 4:4–5
Hear us, O God, for we are despised. Turn their scorn back upon their own heads, and let them be taken as plunder to a land of captivity.
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Jeremiah 18:18
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.”
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Romans 2:5
But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
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Psalms 59:5
O LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, rouse Yourself to punish all the nations; show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah
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