Jeremiah 18:18

English Standard Version 2016

Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.”

Cross References

Psalm 52:2

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.

Malachi 2:7

For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

Jeremiah 11:19

But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. I did not know it was against me they devised schemes, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more.”

Jeremiah 18:11

Now, therefore, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: ‘Thus says the Lord, Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Return, every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your deeds.’

Psalm 21:11

Though they plan evil against you, though they devise mischief, they will not succeed.

Jeremiah 43:2

Azariah the son of Hoshaiah and Johanan the son of Kareah and all the insolent men said to Jeremiah, “You are telling a lie. The Lord our God did not send you to say, ‘Do not go to Egypt to live there,’

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

Psalm 64:3

who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,

Psalm 57:4

My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down amid fiery beasts— the children of man, whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not say, ‘Where is the Lord?’ Those who handle the law did not know me; the shepherds transgressed against me; the prophets prophesied by Baal and went after things that do not profit.

Isaiah 32:7

As for the scoundrel—his devices are evil; he plans wicked schemes to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.

Job 5:13

He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.

1 Kings 22:24

Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, “How did the Spirit of the Lord go from me to speak to you?”

2 Samuel 17:14

And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For the Lord had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the Lord might bring harm upon Absalom.

2 Samuel 15:31

And it was told David, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said, “O Lord, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

Leviticus 10:11

and you are to teach the people of Israel all the statutes that the Lord has spoken to them by Moses.”

John 9:40

Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”

Jeremiah 26:11

Then the priests and the prophets said to the officials and to all the people, “This man deserves the sentence of death, because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears.”

Luke 11:45

One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying these things you insult us also.”

Jeremiah 44:17

But we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no disaster.

Jeremiah 8:8

“How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us’? But behold, the lying pen of the scribes has made it into a lie.

Jeremiah 18:19

Hear me, O Lord, and listen to the voice of my adversaries.

Jeremiah 20:10

For I hear many whispering. Terror is on every side! “Denounce him! Let us denounce him!” say all my close friends, watching for my fall. “Perhaps he will be deceived; then we can overcome him and take our revenge on him.”

Jeremiah 37:13

When he was at the Benjamin Gate, a sentry there named Irijah the son of Shelemiah, son of Hananiah, seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans.”

Ezekiel 7:26

Disaster comes upon disaster; rumor follows rumor. They seek a vision from the prophet, while the law perishes from the priest and counsel from the elders.

2 Chronicles 24:21

But they conspired against him, and by command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the Lord.

Jeremiah 1:19

They will fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you, for I am with you, declares the Lord, to deliver you.”

Jeremiah 44:16

“As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not listen to you.

Lamentations 3:62

The lips and thoughts of my assailants are against me all the day long.

Micah 3:6

Therefore it shall be night to you, without vision, and darkness to you, without divination. The sun shall go down on the prophets, and the day shall be black over them;

Micah 3:7

the seers shall be disgraced, and the diviners put to shame; they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God.