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Jeremiah 18:22

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

May a cry be heard from their houses when you bring the marauder suddenly upon them! For they have dug a pit to catch me and laid snares for my feet.

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O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth and roll in ashes; make mourning as for an only child, most bitter lamentation, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

The arrogant have hidden a trap for me, and with cords they have spread a net, along the road they have set snares for me. Selah

a day of trumpet blast and battle cry against the fortified cities and against the lofty battlements.

Then the Pharisees went and plotted to entrap him in what he said.

For I hear many whispering: “Terror is all around! Denounce him! Let us denounce him!” All my close friends are watching for me to stumble. “Perhaps he can be enticed, and we can prevail against him and take our revenge on him.”

Is evil a recompense for good? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

For I heard a cry as of a woman in labor, anguish as of one bringing forth her first child, the cry of daughter Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands, “Woe is me! I am fainting before killers!”

Cry aloud, O daughter Gallim! Listen, O Laishah! Answer her, O Anathoth!

Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek to hurt me speak of ruin and meditate on treachery all day long.

The arrogant have dug pitfalls for me; they flout your law.

For the wicked are found among my people. They lie in wait like hunters; destroyers, they catch humans.

Let that man be like the cities that the Lord overthrew without pity; let him hear a cry in the morning and an alarm at noon,

I say to the Lord, “You are my God; give ear, O Lord, to the voice of my supplications.”

Look on my right hand and see: there is no one who takes notice of me; no refuge remains to me; no one cares for me.




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