Jeremiah 17:18

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

Confounded

But let not me be confounded

Psalm 25:2

Psalm 71:1

The day

Jeremiah 17:16

Jeremiah 18:19

Destroy them with double destruction

Revelation 18:6

Bible References

Confounded

But the Lord is with me as a great one, greatly to be feared: so my attackers will have a fall, and they will not overcome me: they will be greatly shamed, because they have not done wisely, even with an unending shame, kept in memory for ever.

Let them be overcome and put to shame who make attempts to take my soul; let those who would do me damage be turned back and made foolish.

Let those who go after my soul for its destruction have shame and trouble together; let them be turned back and made foolish who take pleasure in my trouble.

Let those who go after my soul have shame and trouble; let those who have evil designs against me be turned back and made foolish.

But let not me be confounded

O my God, I have put my faith in you, let me not be shamed; let not my haters be glorying over me.

In you, O Lord, have I put my hope; let me never be shamed.

The day

As for me, I have not said; Let the day of trouble come to them quickly; and I have not been hoping for the death-giving day; you have knowledge of what came from my lips; it was open before you.

Give thought to me, O Lord, and give ear to the voice of those who put forward a cause against me.

Destroy them with double destruction

But, O Lord of armies, judging in righteousness, testing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them: for I have put my cause before you.

And you are to say this word to them, Let my eyes be streaming with water night and day, and let it not be stopped; for the virgin daughter of my people is wounded with a great wound, with a very bitter blow.

And I will give them the reward of their evil-doing and their sin twice over; because they have made my land unclean, and have made my heritage full of the bodies of their unholy and disgusting things.

I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.

Give to her as she gave, even an increased reward for her works; in the cup which was mixed by her, let there be mixed as much again for herself.