Jeremiah 18:22

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Summary

Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

A cry

For

Jeremiah 18:20

And hid

General references

Exodus 21:33

Bible References

A cry

My soul, my soul! I am pained at my very heart; my heart makes a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

O daughter of my people, gird yourself with sackcloth, and roll yourself about in ashes: make yourself mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.

Yet hear the word of the LORD, O you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation.

Wail, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, you leaders of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are come; and you shall fall like a choice vessel.

Thus says the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is in it; the city, and them that dwell in it: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.

A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, plundering and great destruction.

Lift up your voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laishah, O poor Anathoth.

The burden concerning the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you are wholly gone up to the housetops?

And it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.

For

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

And hid

For I heard the mocking of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my friends watched for my fall, saying, Perhaps he will be deceived, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and plan deceit all the day long.

Every day they twist my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set traps for me. Selah.

Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.

General references

And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or a donkey fall in it;