Jeremiah 18:20

New American Bible - revised edition

Must good be repaid with evil that they should dig a pit to take my life? Remember that I stood before you to speak on their behalf, to turn your wrath away from them.

Cross References

Job 6:27

You would even cast lots for the orphan, and would barter over your friend!

Psalm 106:23

He would have decreed their destruction, had not Moses, his chosen one, Withstood him in the breach to turn back his destroying anger.

Psalm 119:95

The wicked hope to destroy me, but I seek to understand your testimonies.

Psalm 35:12

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

Psalm 35:7

Without cause they set their snare for me; without cause they dug a pit for me.

Psalm 38:20

My enemies live and grow strong, those who hate me grow numerous fraudulently,

Psalm 57:6

Be exalted over the heavens, God; may your glory appear above all the earth.

Psalm 7:15

Consider how one conceives iniquity; is pregnant with mischief, and gives birth to deception.

Proverbs 17:13

If you return evil for good, evil will not depart from your house.

Proverbs 26:27

Whoever digs a pit falls into it; and a stone comes back upon the one who rolls it.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

Whoever digs a pit may fall into it, and whoever breaks through a wall, a snake may bite.

Jeremiah 11:14

Now, you must not intercede for this people; do not raise on their behalf a cry or prayer! I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their disaster.

Jeremiah 14:20

We recognize our wickedness, Lord, the guilt of our ancestors: we have sinned against you.

Jeremiah 15:1

The Lord said to me: Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me, my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them away from me and let them go.

Jeremiah 17:18

Let my persecutors be confounded—not me! let them be terrified—not me! Bring upon them the day of disaster, crush them with double destruction. Observance of the Sabbath.

Jeremiah 18:19

Pay attention to me, O Lord, and listen to what my adversaries say.

Jeremiah 18:22

May cries be heard from their homes, when suddenly you send plunderers against them. For they have dug a pit to capture me, they have hidden snares for my feet;

Jeremiah 27:18

If they were prophets, if the word of the Lord were with them, then they would intercede with the Lord of hosts, that the vessels remaining in the house of the Lord and in the house of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem should not also go to Babylon.

Jeremiah 5:26

For criminals lurk among my people; like fowlers they set traps, but it is human beings they catch.

Jeremiah 7:16

You, now, must not intercede for this people! Do not raise a cry or prayer in their behalf! Do not press me, for I will not listen to you!

Lamentations 3:59

You see, Lord, how I am wronged; do me justice!

John 10:32

Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of these are you trying to stone me?”

John 15:25

But in order that the word written in their law might be fulfilled, ‘They hated me without cause.’

1 Samuel 19:4

Jonathan then spoke well of David to his father Saul, telling him: “The king should not harm his servant David. He has not harmed you, but has helped you very much by his deeds.