Jeremiah 20:7 - The Scriptures 1998

⁷ O יהוה, You enticed me, and I was enticed. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have been ridiculed all day long, everyone mocks me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ [But Jeremiah said] O Lord, You have persuaded and deceived me, and I was persuaded and deceived; You are stronger than I am and You have prevailed. I am a laughingstock all the day; everyone mocks me.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ O Jehovah, thou hast persuaded me, and I was persuaded; thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocketh me.

Common English Bible

⁷ LORD, you enticed me, and I was taken in. You were too strong for me, and you prevailed. Now I’m laughed at all the time; everyone mocks me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ "You have led me away, O Lord, and I have been led away. You have been stronger than I, and you have prevailed. I have become a derision all day long; everyone mocks me.

Jeremiah 20:7 Cross References

2 Kings 2:23

And he went up from there to Bĕ

Job 12:4

I have become a laughing-stock to my friends – one who has called on Eloah and He answered him! A laughing-stock is the righteous, the perfect one!

Job 30:9

And now I have become their song, and I am a byword to them.

Psalm 119:51

The proud have utterly scorned me, I did not turn aside from Your Torah.

Isaiah 8:11

For יהוה  spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and a man of contention to all the earth! I have neither lent for interest, nor have men lent to me for interest. All of them are reviling me.

Jeremiah 15:18

Why is my pain without end and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Are You to me like a failing stream, as waters not steadfast?

Jeremiah 17:16

And I have not run away from being a shepherd who follows You, nor have I longed for the desperately sick day. You Yourself have known, that which came out of my lips was before You.

Jeremiah 20:9

Whenever I said, “Let me not mention Him, nor speak in His Name again,” it was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones. And I became weary of holding it back, and was helpless.

Jeremiah 29:26

“יהוה  has made you priest instead of Yehoyaḏ

Jeremiah 38:19

Then Tsiḏ

Lamentations 3:14

I have been a mockery to all my people, Their mocking song all the day.

Ezekiel 3:14

And the Spirit lifted me and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit, while the hand of יהוה  was strong upon me.

Hosea 9:7

The days of punishment have come, the days of retribution have come. Yisra’ĕ

Jonah 4:2

And he prayed to יהוה, and he said, “Please, יהוה, was this not what I said while I was in my own land? This is why I went ahead and fled to Tarshish. For I know that You are an Ě

Micah 3:8

But truly I am filled with power, with the Spirit of יהוה, and with right-ruling and with might, to declare to Yaʽ

Luke 16:14

And the Pharisees, who loved silver, also heard all this, and were sneering at Him,

Luke 23:11

And Herodes, with his soldiers, made light of Him and mocked Him, dressing Him in a splendid robe, and sent Him back to Pilate.

Acts 17:18

And some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some were saying, “What does this babbler wish to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of strange mighty ones” – because to them he brought the Good News: יהושע  and the resurrection!

Acts 17:32

And hearing of the resurrection of the dead, some indeed mocked, while others said, “We shall hear you again concerning this.”

1 Corinthians 9:6

Or do only Barnaḇ

Hebrews 11:36

And others had trial of mockings and floggings and more, of chains and imprisonment.