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Jeremiah 18:22

Bible in Basic English 1965

Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly.

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The men of pride, who are turned away from your law, have put nets for me.

The men of pride have put secret cords for my feet; stretching nets in my way, so that they may take me with their tricks. Selah.

I have said to the Lord, You are my God: give ear, O Lord, to the voice of my prayer.

Looking to my right side, I saw no man who was my friend: I had no safe place; no one had any care for my soul.

Those who have a desire to take my life put nets for me; those who are designing my destruction say evil things against me, all the day their minds are full of deceit.

Give a loud cry, daughter of Gallim; let Laishah give ear; let Anathoth give answer to her.

Is evil to be the reward of good? for they have made a deep hole for my soul. Keep in mind how I took my place before you, to say a good word for them so that your wrath might be turned away from them.

For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing there is fear on every side: they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

May that man be like the towns overturned by the Lord without mercy: let a cry for help come to his ears in the morning, and the sound of war in the middle of the day;

A voice has come to my ears like the voice of a woman in birth-pains, the pain of one giving birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, fighting for breath, stretching out her hands, saying, Now sorrow is mine! for my strength is gone from me before the takers of life.

For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.

O daughter of my people, put on haircloth, rolling yourself in the dust: give yourself to sorrow, as for an only son, with most bitter cries of grief; for he who makes waste will come on us suddenly.

A day of sounding the horn and the war-cry against the walled towns and the high towers.

Then the Pharisees went and had a meeting to see how they might make use of his words to take him.




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