Jeremiah 20:10 - Modern English Version

¹⁰ For I heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce him. Yes, denounce him!” All my familiar friends who watch for my fall, say, “Perhaps he will be enticed so that we can prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ For I have heard many whispering and defaming, [There is] terror on every side! Denounce him! Let us denounce him! Say all my familiar friends, they who watch for my fall, Perhaps he will be persuaded and deceived; then we will prevail against him, and we will get our revenge on him.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, say all my familiar friends, they that watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ I hear many whispering— “Panic Lurks Everywhere!— proclaim, yes, let’s proclaim it ourselves!” All my friends are waiting for me to stumble: “Perhaps he can be enticed. Then we’ll prevail against him and get our revenge on him!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ For I heard the insults of many, and terror all around: 'Persecute him!' and, 'Let us persecute him!' from all the men who had been at peace with me and who had kept watch by my side. 'If only there were some way that he might be deceived, and we might prevail against him and obtain vengeance from him!'

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1 Kings 19:2

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.”

1 Kings 21:20

Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” And he answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to work evil in the sight of the Lord.

1 Kings 22:27

and say, ‘Thus says the king: Put this man in the prison, and feed him with reduced rations of bread and water until I return safely.’ ”

1 Kings 22:8

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we can inquire of the Lord. But I hate him because he never prophesies good for me, but always evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”

Job 19:19

All my close friends abhorred me, and they whom I love are turned against me.

Psalm 31:13

For I hear the slander of many; fear is on every side; while they take counsel together against me, they plot to take away my life.

Psalm 31:14

But I trust in You, O  Lord; I say, “You are my God.”

Psalm 41:10

But You, O  Lord, be gracious to me, and raise me up, that I may repay them.

Psalm 41:9

Even my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, has lifted up the heel against me.

Psalm 57:4

My soul is among lions; I lie among the sons of men who are set on fire, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Proverbs 10:18

He who conceals hatred has lying lips, and he who utters slander is a fool.

Isaiah 29:21

those who cause a man to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and turn aside the righteous with meaningless arguments.

Jeremiah 1:19

They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you, for I am with you, says the Lord, to deliver you.

Jeremiah 11:19

But I was like a gentle lamb that is brought to the slaughter, and I did not know that they had devised plots against me, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with the fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living so that his name may be remembered no more.”

Jeremiah 11:21

Therefore thus says the Lord of the men of Anathoth who seek your life, saying, “Do not prophesy in the name of the Lord so that you not die by our hand.”

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah. For the law will not be lost from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”

Jeremiah 20:3

On the next day Pashhur brought Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, The Lord has not called your name Pashhur, but “Magor-missabib.”

Jeremiah 37:13

When he was in the Gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard was there whose name was Irijah the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah. And he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are falling away to the Chaldeans!”

Jeremiah 6:25

Do not go out into the field, nor walk on the road. For the sword of the enemy and terror is on every side.”

Ezekiel 22:9

In you are men who carry slanders to shed blood. And in you they eat at the mountain shrines. In your midst they commit lewdness.

Daniel 6:4

Then the presidents and officials sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom, but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful, nor was there any error or fault found in him.

Luke 20:20

They watched Him and sent out spies who pretended to be righteous men, that they might seize Him in His words to hand Him over to the power and authority of the governor.

Acts 24:13

They cannot prove the things concerning which they now accuse me.

Acts 5:33

When they heard this, they were cut to the heart with rage and took counsel to kill them.

Acts 7:54

When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart with rage, and they gnashed their teeth at him.