Jeremiah 18:20 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁰ Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before you to speak good on their behalf, to turn your anger from them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Shall evil be recompensed for good? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. [Earnestly] remember that I stood before You to speak good for them, to turn away Your anger from them.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Should evil be returned for good? Yet they have set traps for me. Remember that I stood before you, begging you to be merciful and not to punish them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Should evil be rendered for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul! Remember that I have stood in your sight, so as to speak on their behalf for good, and to avert your indignation from them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy sight, to speak good for them and turn away thy indignation from them.

Jeremiah 18:20 Tagairtí Cros

Job 6:27

No doubt you would cast lots for a fatherless child and negotiate a price to sell your friend.

Proverbs 17:13

If anyone returns evil for good, evil will never depart from his house.

Proverbs 26:27

The one who digs a pit will fall into it, and whoever rolls a stone – it will come back on him.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

The one who digs a pit may fall into it, and the one who breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

Jeremiah 11:14

‘As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf,  for I will not be listening when they call out to me at the time of their disaster.

Jeremiah 14:20

We acknowledge our wickedness,  Lord, the iniquity of our ancestors; indeed, we have sinned against you.

Jeremiah 15:1

Then the Lord said to me, ‘Even if Moses and Samuel  should stand before me,  my heart would not go out to these people. Send them from my presence, and let them go.

Jeremiah 17:18

Let my persecutors be put to shame, but don’t let me be put to shame. Let them be terrified, but don’t let me be terrified. Bring on them the day of disaster; shatter them with total   destruction.

Jeremiah 18:19

Pay attention to me, Lord. Hear what my opponents are saying!

Jeremiah 18:22

Let a cry be heard from their houses when you suddenly bring raiders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.

Jeremiah 27:18

If they are indeed prophets and if the word of the Lord is with them, let them intercede with the Lord of Armies not to let the articles that remain in the Lord’s temple, in the palace of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem go to Babylon.”

Jeremiah 5:26

for wicked men live among my people. They watch like hunters  lying in wait.  , They set a trap; they catch men.

Jeremiah 7:16

‘As for you, do not pray for these people.  Do not offer a cry or a prayer on their behalf, and do not beg me,  for I will not listen to you.

Lamentations 3:59

Lord, you saw the wrong done to me; judge my case.

John 10:32

Jesus replied, ‘I have shown you many good works   from the Father. For which of these works are you stoning me? ’

John 15:25

But this happened so that the statement written in their law might be fulfilled:   They hated me for no reason.   ,

1 Samuel 19:4

Jonathan spoke well of David to his father, Saul. He said to him, ‘The king should not sin against his servant David.  He hasn’t sinned against you; in fact, his actions have been a great advantage to you.