Jeremiah 18:22

Jeremiah's Imprecatory Prayer

²¹ Therefore deliver up their sons to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword, and let their wives become childless, and widows, and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men smitten of the sword in battl ²² Let a cry be heard from their houses when thou shall bring a troop suddenly upon them, for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet. ²³ Yet, LORD, thou know all their counsel against me to kill me. Do not forgive their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee. Deal thou with them in the time of thine anger.

Cry for Help

Let There Be

Psalm 140:5

The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords. They have spread a net by the wayside. They have set snares for me. Selah.

Jeremiah 6:26

O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes. Make thee mourning, as for an only son, a most bitter lamentation. For the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.

Psalm 38:12

Those also who seek after my life lay snares [for me]. And those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all the day long.

Psalm 56:5-7

All the day long they wrest my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

Psalm 64:4-5

that they may shoot in secret places at a blameless man. Suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

Isaiah 10:30

Cry aloud with thy voice, O daughter of Gallim! Hearken, O Laishah! O thou poor Anathoth!

Isaiah 22:1-4

The burden of the valley of vision. What troubles thee now, that thou have wholly gone up to the housetops?

Jeremiah 9:20-21

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

Jeremiah 18:20

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

Jeremiah 20:10

For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we sha

Jeremiah 25:34-36

Wail, ye shepherds, and cry. And wallow, ye principal men of the flock. For the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions have fully come, and ye shall fall like a goodly vessel.

Jeremiah 47:2-3

Thus says LORD: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall become an overflowing stream, and shall overflow the land and all that is therein, the city and those who dwell therein. And the men shall cry, and all the inhabita

Jeremiah 48:3-5

The sound of a cry from Horonaim: Desolation and great destruction!

Zephaniah 1:10-11

And in that day, says LORD, 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.

Zephaniah 1:16

a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.

Matthew 22:15

Then the Pharisees having departed, they took counsel how they might trap him in his talk.