Jeremiah 18:23

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Summary

Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.

Thou

Forgive

In the

Romans 2:5

Bible References

Thou

Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah. Surely the law is not going to be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the sage, nor the divine word to the prophet! Come on and let us strike at him with our tongue, and let us give no heed to any of his words.”

Moreover, the Lord

made it known to me and I knew it;

Then You showed me their deeds.

You who know, O Lord,

Remember me, take notice of me,
And take vengeance for me on my persecutors.
Do not, in view of Your patience, take me away;
Know that for Your sake I endure reproach.

The wicked spies upon the righteous
And seeks to kill him.

Forgive

Hear, O our God, how we are despised! Return their reproach on their own heads and give them up for plunder in a land of captivity.

Let those be ashamed and dishonored who seek my life;
Let those be turned back and humiliated who devise evil against me.

You, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel,
Awake to

punish all the nations;

Do not be gracious to any who are treacherous in iniquity.

Selah.

May their table before them become a snare;
And

when they are in peace, may it become a trap.

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord,
And do not let the sin of his mother be blotted out.

So the common man has been humbled
And the man of importance has been abased,
But do not forgive them.

In the

“Were they ashamed because of the abomination they had done?
They certainly were not ashamed,
And they did not know how to blush;
Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;
At the time of their punishment they shall be brought down,”
Says the Lord.

and a remnant will not be left to them, for I will bring disaster on the men of Anathoth—the year of their punishment.”

Now what will you do in the day of punishment,
And in the devastation which will come from afar?

To whom will you flee for help?

And where will you leave your wealth?

because these are days of vengeance, so that all things which are written will be fulfilled.

But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,