Jeremiah 18:22

New American Bible - revised edition

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;

Cross References

Psalm 119:85

The arrogant have dug pits for me; defying your law.

Psalm 140:5

Keep me, Lord, from the clutches of the wicked; preserve me from the violent, who plot to trip me up.

Psalm 140:6

The arrogant have set a trap for me; they have spread out ropes for a net, laid snares for me by the wayside. Selah

Psalm 142:4

When my spirit is faint within me, you know my path. As I go along this path, they have hidden a trap for me.

Psalm 38:12

Friends and companions shun my disease; my neighbors stand far off.

Isaiah 10:30

Cry and shriek, Bath-Gallim! Hearken, Laishah! Answer her, Anathoth!

Jeremiah 18:20

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.

Jeremiah 20:10

Yes, I hear the whisperings of many: “Terror on every side! Denounce! let us denounce him!” All those who were my friends are on the watch for any misstep of mine. “Perhaps he can be tricked; then we will prevail, and take our revenge on him.”

Jeremiah 20:16

Let that man be like the cities which the Lord relentlessly overthrew; Let him hear war cries in the morning, battle alarms at noonday,

Jeremiah 4:31

Yes, I hear the cry, like that of a woman in labor, like the anguish of a mother bearing her first child— The cry of daughter Zion gasping, as she stretches out her hands: “Ah, woe is me! I sink exhausted before my killers!”

Jeremiah 5:26

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

Jeremiah 6:26

Daughter of my people, dress in sackcloth, roll in the ashes. Mourn as for an only child with bitter wailing: “How suddenly the destroyer comes upon us!”

Zephaniah 1:16

A day of trumpet blasts and battle cries against fortified cities, against lofty battlements.

Matthew 22:15

Then the Pharisees went off and plotted how they might entrap him in speech.