Jeremiah 18:20 - Catholic Public Domain Version 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. 更多版本King James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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. English Standard Version 2016 Should good be repaid with evil? 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. |
Those who descend to the sea in ships, making their livelihood in the great waters:
Your justice is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are a great abyss. Men and beasts, you will save, O Lord.
who will not listen to the voice of charmers, nor even to the enchanter who chants wisely.
Behold him who has given birth to injustice: he has conceived sorrow and has begotten iniquity.
Whoever digs a pit will fall into it. And whoever rolls a stone, it will roll back to him.
Whoever digs a pit will fall into it. And whoever tears apart a hedge, a snake will bite him.
Therefore, you should not choose to pray for this people, and you should not take up praise and petitioning on their behalf. For I will not heed them in the time of their outcry to me, in the time of their affliction.
O Lord, we acknowledge our impieties, the iniquities of our fathers, that we have sinned against you.
And the Lord said to me: "Even if Moses and Samuel were to stand before me, my soul would not be toward this people. Cast them away from my face, and let them depart!
May those who persecute me be confounded, but may I not be confounded. May they be fearful, and may I not be fearful. Lead over them the day of affliction, and crush them with a double destruction."
Let an outcry be heard from their houses. For you will lead the robber upon them suddenly. For they have dug a pit, so that they may seize me, and they have hidden snares for my feet.
But if they are prophets, and if the word of the Lord is in them, then let them intercede before the Lord of hosts, so that the vessels that were left behind in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem, may not go to Babylon.
For the impious are found among my people; they lie in ambush like fowlers setting snares, for they set traps to catch men.
Therefore, you should not pray for this people, nor take up praise and supplication on their behalf. And you should not stand in opposition to me. For then I will not heed you.
Jesus answered them: "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?"
But this is so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law: 'For they hated me without cause.'
Then Jonathan spoke good things about David to his father Saul. And he said to him: "You should not sin, O king, against your servant David. For he has not sinned against you, and his works toward you are very good.