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

Psalm 83:17

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 Yahweh [is] with me like a powerful warrior. {Therefore} my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. They will be very ashamed, for they will not achieve success. [Their] {everlasting insult} will not be forgotten.

Let those who seek my life be shamed and humiliated. Let those who plot calamity against me be repulsed and ashamed.

Let them be shamed and abashed altogether who seek to take away my life. Let them be repulsed and humiliated [who] desire my harm.

Let them be ashamed and abashed who seek my life. Let them be repulsed and humiliated [who] desire my harm.

Let them be ashamed and terrified forever, and let them be humiliated and perish

But let not me be confounded

O my God, I trust you; let me not be put to shame. Do not let my enemies exult over me.

In you, O Yahweh, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame.

The day

But I, I have not run away from being a shepherd {who follows you}, and I have not desired the disastrous day. You, you know the pronouncement of my lips, it was before your face.

Listen attentively to me, Yahweh, and listen to [the] voice of my opponents.

Destroy them with double destruction

But Yahweh of hosts, who judges [in] righteousness, who tests [the] {inmost being}, and [the] {mind}, let me see your retribution upon them, for to you I have revealed my legal case.

"And you shall say to them this word, 'Let my eyes melt [with] tears night and day, and let them not cease, for [with] a great wound the virgin daughter of my people is broken, [with] a very incurable wound.

And {I will first doubly repay} their iniquity and their sin because of their profaning my land with the dead bodies of their abhorrences, and [with] their abominations they have filled up my inheritance.'"

He breached me {breach upon breach}; he rushes at me like a warrior.

Pay back to her as she herself also paid out, and {pay back double} according to her deeds; in the cup that she mixed, mix double for her.