Jeremiah 18:20

Jeremiah's Imprecatory Prayer

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Pay attention to me, O Lord [and intercede];
Listen to what my adversaries are saying [and are plotting against me]—
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Should good be repaid with evil?
Yet they have dug a pit for me.
Remember [with compassion] that I stood before You
To speak good on their behalf,
To turn Your anger away from them.
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Therefore, give their children over to the famine;
Give them over to the power of the sword.
And let their wives become childless and widowed;
Let their men meet death [by virulent disease],
Their young men be struck down by the sword in battle.

Do Good

Psalm 35:7

For without cause they hid their net for me;
Without cause they dug a pit [of destruction] for my life.

Psalm 57:6

They set a net for my steps;
My very life was bowed down.
They dug a pit before me;
Into the midst of it they themselves have fallen. Selah.

Psalm 106:23

Therefore He said He would destroy them,
[And He would have done so] had not Moses, His chosen one, stepped into the gap before Him,
To turn away His wrath from destroying them.

Psalm 35:12

They repay me evil for good,
To the sorrow of my soul.

Jeremiah 18:22

Let an outcry be heard from their houses
When You suddenly bring [a troop of] raiders upon them,
For they have dug a pit to capture me
And have hidden snares for my feet.

Genesis 18:22-32

Now the [two] men (angelic beings) turned away from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the Lord.

1 Samuel 24:17-19

He said to David, “You are more righteous and upright [in God’s eyes] than I; for you have done good to me, but I have done evil to you.

Job 6:27

“You would cast lots (gamble) over the fatherless
And bargain away your friend.

Psalm 7:15

He has dug a pit and hollowed it out,
And has fallen into the [very] pit which he made [as a trap].

Psalm 38:20

They repay evil for good, they attack and try to kill me,
Because I follow what is good.

Psalm 109:4-5

In return for my love, they attack me,
But I am in prayer.

Psalm 119:95

The wicked wait for me to destroy me,
But I will consider Your testimonies.

Proverbs 17:13

Whoever returns evil for good,
Evil will not depart from his house.

Proverbs 26:27

Whoever digs a pit [for another man’s feet] will fall into it,
And he who rolls a stone [up a hill to do mischief], it will come back on him.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

He who digs a pit [for others] may fall into it, and a serpent may bite him who breaks through a [stone] wall.

Jeremiah 7:16

“Therefore, do not pray for this people [of Judah] or lift up a cry or entreaty for them or make intercession to Me, for I do not hear you.

Jeremiah 11:14

“Therefore do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them, for I shall not listen when they cry to Me in the time of their disaster.

Jeremiah 14:7-11

“O Lord, though our many sins testify against us” [prays Jeremiah],
“Act now [for us and] for Your name’s sake [so that the faithless may witness Your faithfulness]!
For our backslidings are countless;
We have sinned against You.

Jeremiah 14:20-1

We know and acknowledge, O Lord,
Our wickedness and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against You.

Ezekiel 22:30-31

I searched for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before Me for [the sake of] the land, that I would not destroy it, but I found no one [not even one].

Zechariah 3:1-2

Then the guiding angel showed me Joshua the high priest [representing disobedient, sinful Israel] standing before the Angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at Joshua’s right hand to be his adversary and to accuse him.

John 10:32

Jesus answered them, “I showed you many good works [and many acts of mercy] from the Father; for which of them are you stoning Me?”

John 15:25

But [this is so] that the word which has been written in their Law would be fulfilled, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’