Jeremiah 20:10 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁰ 8 Why came I out of the womb, to see labour and sorrow, and that my days should be spent in confusion?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ For I have heard many whispering and defaming, [There is] terror on every side! Denounce him! Let us denounce him! Say all my familiar friends, they who watch for my fall, Perhaps he will be persuaded and deceived; then we will prevail against him, and we will get our revenge on him.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, say all my familiar friends, they that watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ I hear many whispering— “Panic Lurks Everywhere!— proclaim, yes, let’s proclaim it ourselves!” All my friends are waiting for me to stumble: “Perhaps he can be enticed. Then we’ll prevail against him and get our revenge on him!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ For I heard the insults of many, and terror all around: 'Persecute him!' and, 'Let us persecute him!' from all the men who had been at peace with me and who had kept watch by my side. 'If only there were some way that he might be deceived, and we might prevail against him and obtain vengeance from him!'

Jeremiah 20:10 Cross References

1 Kings 19:2

And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him, and said to him: Arise, eat: for thou hast yet a great way to go.

1 Kings 21:20

5 Now there was not such another as Achab, who was sold to do evil in the sight of the Lord: for his wife Jezabel set him on,

1 Kings 22:27

2 So when the captains of the chariots saw Josaphat, they suspected that he was the king of Israel, and making a violent assault they fought against him: and Josaphat cried out.

1 Kings 22:8

3 And the messenger, that went to call Micheas, spoke to him, saying: Behold the words of the prophets with one month declare good things to the king: let thy word therefore be like to theirs, and speak that which is good.

Job 19:19

4 With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with an instrument in flint stone.

Psalm 31:13

0 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy face, from the disturbance of men. Thou shalt protect them in thy tabernacle from the contradiction of tongues.

Psalm 31:14

1 Blessed be the Lord, for he hath shewn his wonderful mercy to me in a fortified city.

Psalm 41:10

These things I remembered, and poured out my soul in me : for I shall go over into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even to the house of God : With the voice of joy and praise; the noise of one feasting.

Psalm 41:9

My tears have been any bread day and night, whilst it is said to me daily : Where is thy God?

Psalm 57:4

1 Be thou exalted, O God, above the l heavens: and thy glory above all the earth.

Proverbs 10:18

5 As a tempest that passeth, so the wicked shall be no more: but the just is as an everlasting foundation.

Isaiah 29:21

They were all confounded at a people that could not profit them: they were no help, nor to any profit, but to confusion and to reproach.

Jeremiah 1:19

The priests did not say: Where is the Lord? and they that held the law knew me not, and the pastors transgressed against me: and the prophets prophesied in Baal, and followed idols.

Jeremiah 11:19

How long shall the land mourn, and the herb of every field wither for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? The beasts and the birds are consumed: because they have said: He shall not see our last end.

Jeremiah 11:21

For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have fought against thee, and have cried after thee with full voice: believe them not when they speak good things to thee.

Jeremiah 18:18

And thou shalt say: Hear the word of the Lord, O ye kings of Juda, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold I will bring an affliction upon this place: so that whoever shall hear it, his ears shall tingle:

Jeremiah 20:3

1 But the Lord is with me as a strong warrior: therefore they that persecute me shall fall, and shall be weak: they shall be greatly confounded, because they have not understood the everlasting reproach, which never shall be effaced.

Jeremiah 37:13

1 Then king Sedecias commanded that Jeremias should be committed into the entry of the prison: and that they should give him daily a piece of bread, beside broth, till all the bread in the city were spent: and Jeremias remained in the entry of the prison.

Jeremiah 6:25

Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Make your ways and your doings good: and I will dwell with you in this place.

Ezekiel 22:9

7 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Daniel 6:4

2 And they came and spoke to the king concerning the edict: O king, hast thou not decreed, that every man that should make a request to any of the gods, or men, for thirty days, but to thyself, O king, should be cast into the den of the lions? And the king answered them, saying: The word is true according to the decree of the Medes and Persians, which it is not lawful to violate.

Luke 20:20

8 Saying: Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he leave no children, that his brother should take her to wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

Acts 24:13

1 Except it be for this one voice only that I cried, standing among them, Concerning the resurrection of the dead am I judged this day by you.

Acts 5:33

1 And they indeed went from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were accounted worthy to suffer reproach for the name of Jesus.

Acts 7:54

And devout men took order for Stephen's funeral, and made great mourning over him.