Jeremiah 18:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ Is evil a recompense for good? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Shall evil be recompensed for good? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. [Earnestly] remember that I stood before You to speak good for them, to turn away Your anger from them.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Should evil be returned for good? Yet they have set traps for me. Remember that I stood before you, begging you to be merciful and not to punish them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Should evil be rendered for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul! Remember that I have stood in your sight, so as to speak on their behalf for good, and to avert your indignation from them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy sight, to speak good for them and turn away thy indignation from them.

Jeremiah 18:20 Cross References

Job 6:27

You would even cast lots over the orphan and bargain over your friend.

Psalm 106:23

Therefore he said he would destroy them— had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them.

Psalm 119:95

The wicked lie in wait to destroy me, but I consider your decrees.

Psalm 35:12

They repay me evil for good; my soul is forlorn.

Psalm 35:7

For without cause they hid their net for me; without cause they dug a pit for my life.

Psalm 38:20

Those who render me evil for good are my adversaries because I follow after good.

Psalm 57:6

They set a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down. They dug a pit in my path, but they have fallen into it themselves. Selah

Psalm 7:15

They make a pit, digging it out, and fall into the hole that they have made.

Proverbs 17:13

Evil will not depart from the house of one who returns evil for good.

Proverbs 26:27

Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back on the one who starts it rolling.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and whoever breaks through a wall will be bitten by a snake.

Jeremiah 11:14

As for you, do not pray for this people or lift up a cry or prayer on their behalf, for I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their trouble.

Jeremiah 14:20

We acknowledge our wickedness, O Lord, the iniquity of our ancestors, for we have sinned against you.

Jeremiah 15:1

Then the Lord said to me: Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!

Jeremiah 17:18

Let my persecutors be shamed, but do not let me be shamed; let them be dismayed, but do not let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of disaster; destroy them with double destruction!

Jeremiah 18:19

Give heed to me, O Lord, and listen to what my adversaries say!

Jeremiah 18:22

May a cry be heard from their houses when you bring the marauder suddenly upon them! For they have dug a pit to catch me and laid snares for my feet.

Jeremiah 27:18

If indeed they are prophets and the word of the Lord is with them, then let them intercede with the Lord of hosts, that the vessels left in the house of the Lord, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem may not go to Babylon.

Jeremiah 5:26

For the wicked are found among my people. They lie in wait like hunters; destroyers, they catch humans.

Jeremiah 7:16

As for you, do not pray for this people, do not raise a cry or prayer on their behalf, and do not intercede with me, for I will not hear you.

Lamentations 3:59

You have seen the wrong done to me, O Lord; judge my cause.

John 10:32

Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?”

John 15:25

It was to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

1 Samuel 19:4

Jonathan spoke well of David to his father Saul, saying to him, “The king should not sin against his servant David, because he has not sinned against you and because his deeds have been of good service to you,