Jeremiah 18:20

Jeremiah's Imprecatory Prayer

¹⁹ Pay attention to me, Lord.
Hear what my opponents are saying!
²⁰ Should good be repaid with evil?
Yet they have dug a pit for me.
Remember how I stood before You
to speak good on their behalf,
to turn Your anger from them.
²¹ Therefore, hand their children over to famine,
and pour the sword’s power on them.
Let their wives become childless and widowed,
their husbands slain by deadly disease,
their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

Do Good

Psalm 35:7

They hid their net for me without cause;
they dug a pit for me without cause.

Psalm 57:6

They prepared a net for my steps;
I was despondent.
They dug a pit ahead of me,
but they fell into it!Selah

Psalm 106:23

So He said He would have destroyed them—
if Moses His chosen one
had not stood before Him in the breach
to turn His wrath away from destroying them.

Psalm 35:12

They repay me evil for good,
making me desolate.

Jeremiah 18:22

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.

Genesis 18:22-32

The men turned from there and went toward Sodom while Abraham remained standing before the Lord.

1 Samuel 24:17-19

and said to David, “You are more righteous than I, for you have done what is good to me though I have done what is evil to you.

Job 6:27

No doubt you would cast lots for a fatherless child
and negotiate a price to sell your friend.

Psalm 7:15

He dug a pit and hollowed it out
but fell into the hole he had made.

Psalm 38:20

Those who repay evil for good
attack me for pursuing good.

Psalm 109:4-5

In return for my love they accuse me,
but I continue to pray.

Psalm 119:95

The wicked hope to destroy me,
but I contemplate Your decrees.

Proverbs 17:13

If anyone returns evil for good,
evil will never depart from his house.

Proverbs 26:27

The one who digs a pit will fall into it,
and whoever rolls a stone—
it will come back on him.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

The one who digs a pit may fall into it,
and the one who breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

Jeremiah 7:16

“As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not offer a cry or a prayer on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you.

Jeremiah 11:14

“As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me at the time of their disaster.

Jeremiah 14:7-11

Though our guilt testifies against us,
Yahweh, act for Your name’s sake.
Indeed, our rebellions are many;
we have sinned against You.

Jeremiah 14:20-1

We acknowledge our wickedness, Lord,
the guilt of our fathers;
indeed, we have sinned against You.

Ezekiel 22:30-31

I searched for a man among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land so that I might not destroy it, but I found no one.

Zechariah 3:1-2

Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of the Lord, with Satan standing at his right side to accuse him.

John 10:32

Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. Which of these works are you stoning Me for?”

John 15:25

But this happened so that the statement written in their scripture might be fulfilled: They hated Me for no reason.