Jeremiah 18:20

Catholic Public Domain Version

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.

Cross References

Job 6:27

You encroach upon the orphan, and you strive to undermine your friend.

Psalm 106:23

Those who descend to the sea in ships, making their livelihood in the great waters:

Psalm 35:12

May arrogant feet not approach me, and may the hand of the sinner not disturb me.

Psalm 35:7

Your justice is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are a great abyss. Men and beasts, you will save, O Lord.

Psalm 57:6

who will not listen to the voice of charmers, nor even to the enchanter who chants wisely.

Psalm 7:15

Behold him who has given birth to injustice: he has conceived sorrow and has begotten iniquity.

Proverbs 17:13

Whoever repays evil for good, evil shall not withdraw from his house.

Proverbs 26:27

Whoever digs a pit will fall into it. And whoever rolls a stone, it will roll back to him.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

Whoever digs a pit will fall into it. And whoever tears apart a hedge, a snake will bite him.

Jeremiah 11:14

Therefore, you should not choose to pray for this people, and you should not take up praise and petitioning on their behalf. For I will not heed them in the time of their outcry to me, in the time of their affliction.

Jeremiah 14:20

O Lord, we acknowledge our impieties, the iniquities of our fathers, that we have sinned against you.

Jeremiah 15:1

And the Lord said to me: "Even if Moses and Samuel were to stand before me, my soul would not be toward this people. Cast them away from my face, and let them depart!

Jeremiah 17:18

May those who persecute me be confounded, but may I not be confounded. May they be fearful, and may I not be fearful. Lead over them the day of affliction, and crush them with a double destruction."

Jeremiah 18:19

Attend to me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my adversaries.

Jeremiah 18:22

Let an outcry be heard from their houses. For you will lead the robber upon them suddenly. For they have dug a pit, so that they may seize me, and they have hidden snares for my feet.

Jeremiah 27:18

But if they are prophets, and if the word of the Lord is in them, then let them intercede before the Lord of hosts, so that the vessels that were left behind in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem, may not go to Babylon.

Jeremiah 5:26

For the impious are found among my people; they lie in ambush like fowlers setting snares, for they set traps to catch men.

Jeremiah 7:16

Therefore, you should not pray for this people, nor take up praise and supplication on their behalf. And you should not stand in opposition to me. For then I will not heed you.

Lamentations 3:59

RES. You have seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me. Judge my case.

John 10:32

Jesus answered them: "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?"

John 15:25

But this is so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law: 'For they hated me without cause.'

1 Samuel 19:4

Then Jonathan spoke good things about David to his father Saul. And he said to him: "You should not sin, O king, against your servant David. For he has not sinned against you, and his works toward you are very good.