Jeremiah 18:20

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Summary

Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.

Evil

John 15:25

Digged

Remember

General references

Exodus 21:33

Proverbs 17:13

Bible References

Evil

And he saith unto David, 'More righteous thou art than I; for thou hast done me good, and I have done thee evil;

They pay me evil for good, bereaving my soul,

And those paying evil for good accuse me, Because of my pursuing good.

For my love they oppose me, and I -- prayer!

Whoso is returning evil for good, Evil moveth not from his house.

Jesus answered them, 'Many good works did I shew you from my Father; because of which work of them do ye stone me?'

but -- that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law -- They hated me without a cause.

Digged

A cry is heard from their houses, For Thou bringest against them suddenly a troop, For they dug a pit to capture me, And snares they have hidden for my feet.

Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.

A pit he hath prepared, and he diggeth it, And he falleth into a ditch he maketh.

For without cause they hid for me their netpit, Without cause they digged for my soul.

A net they have prepared for my steps, Bowed down hath my soul, They have digged before me a pit, They have fallen into its midst. Selah.

Thy wicked waited for me to destroy me, Thy testimonies I understand.

Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And the roller of a stone, to him it turneth.

Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And whoso is breaking a hedge, a serpent biteth him.

Remember

And thou dost not pray for this people, Nor lift up for them crying and prayer, Nor intercede with Me, for I hear thee not.

And thou, thou dost not pray for this people, Nor dost thou lift up for them cry and prayer, For I do not hearken in the time of their calling unto Me for their vexation.

Surely our iniquities have testified against us, O Jehovah, work for Thy name's sake, For many have been our backslidings, Against Thee we have sinned.

And Jehovah saith unto me: Though Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My soul is not toward this people, Send from before My face, and they go out.

and the men turn from thence, and go towards Sodom; and Abraham is yet standing before Jehovah.

And He saith to destroy them, Unless Moses, His chosen one, Had stood in the breach before Him, To turn back His wrath from destroying.

And I seek of them a man making a fence, And standing in the breach before Me, In behalf of the land -- not to destroy it, And I have not found.

And he sheweth me Joshua the high priest standing before the messenger of Jehovah, and the Adversary standing at his right hand, to be an adversary to him.

General references

And when a man doth open a pit, or when a man doth dig a pit, and doth not cover it, and an ox or ass hath fallen thither, --

Whoso is returning evil for good, Evil moveth not from his house.