Jeremiah 20:10

New American Bible - revised edition

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.”

Cross References

1 Kings 19:2

Jezebel then sent a messenger to Elijah and said, “May the gods do thus to me and more, if by this time tomorrow I have not done with your life what was done to each of them.”

1 Kings 21:20

Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me out, my enemy?” He said, “I have found you. Because you have given yourself up to doing evil in the Lord’s sight,

1 Kings 22:27

and say, ‘This is the king’s order: Put this man in prison and feed him scanty rations of bread and water until I come back in safety.’”

1 Kings 22:8

The king of Israel answered, “There is one other man through whom we might consult the Lord; but I hate him because he prophesies not good but evil about me. He is Micaiah, son of Imlah.” Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say that.”

Job 19:19

All my intimate friends hold me in horror; those whom I loved have turned against me!

Psalm 31:13

I am forgotten, out of mind like the dead; I am like a worn-out tool.

Psalm 31:14

I hear the whispers of the crowd; terrors are all around me. They conspire together against me; they plot to take my life.

Psalm 41:10

Even my trusted friend, who ate my bread, has raised his heel against me.

Psalm 41:9

‘He has had ruin poured over him; that one lying down will never rise again.’

Psalm 57:4

May God send help from heaven to save me, shame those who trample upon me. May God send fidelity and mercy. Selah

Proverbs 10:18

Whoever conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.

Isaiah 29:21

those who condemn with a mere word, Who ensnare the defender at the gate, and leave the just with an empty claim.

Jeremiah 1:19

They will fight against you, but not prevail over you, for I am with you to deliver you—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 11:19

Yet I was like a trusting lamb led to slaughter, not knowing that they were hatching plots against me: “Let us destroy the tree in its vigor; let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will no longer be remembered.”

Jeremiah 11:21

Therefore, thus says the Lord concerning the men of Anathoth who seek your life and say, “Do not prophesy in the name of the Lord; otherwise you shall die by our hand.”

Jeremiah 18:18

“Come,” they said, “let us devise a plot against Jeremiah, for instruction will not perish from the priests, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophets. Come, let us destroy him by his own tongue. Let us pay careful attention to his every word.”

Jeremiah 20:3

The next morning, after Pashhur had released Jeremiah from the stocks, the prophet said to him: “Instead of Pashhur, the Lord names you ‘Terror on every side.’

Jeremiah 37:13

But at the Gate of Benjamin, the captain of the guard, by the name of Irijah, son of Shelemiah, son of Hananiah, arrested Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans!”

Jeremiah 6:25

Do not go out into the field, do not step into the street, For the enemy has a sword; terror on every side!

Ezekiel 22:9

In you are those who slander to cause bloodshed; within you are those who feast on the mountains; in your midst are those whose actions are depraved.

Daniel 6:4

Daniel outshone all the ministers and satraps because an extraordinary spirit was in him, and the king considered setting him over the entire kingdom.

Luke 20:20

They watched him closely and sent agents pretending to be righteous who were to trap him in speech, in order to hand him over to the authority and power of the governor.

Acts 24:13

Nor can they prove to you the accusations they are now making against me.

Acts 5:33

When they heard this, they became infuriated and wanted to put them to death.

Acts 7:54

When they heard this, they were infuriated, and they ground their teeth at him.