Jeremiah 20:7-14

Jeremiah’s Complaint

7 You deceived[a] me, LORD, and I was deceived[b] ; you overpowered me and prevailed. I am ridiculed all day long; everyone mocks me.
8 Whenever I speak, I cry out proclaiming violence and destruction. So the word of the LORD has brought me insult and reproach all day long.
9 But if I say, “I will not mention his word or speak anymore in his name,” his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.
10 I hear many whispering, “Terror on every side! Denounce him! Let’s denounce him!” All my friends are waiting for me to slip, saying, “Perhaps he will be deceived; then we will prevail over him and take our revenge on him.”
11 But the LORD is with me like a mighty warrior; so my persecutors will stumble and not prevail. They will fail and be thoroughly disgraced; their dishonor will never be forgotten.
12 LORD Almighty, you who examine the righteous and probe the heart and mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for to you I have committed my cause.
13 Sing to the LORD! Give praise to the LORD! He rescues the life of the needy from the hands of the wicked.
14 Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me not be blessed!

Cross References 26

  • 1. S Exodus 5:23; Exodus 22:16
  • 2. Isaiah 8:11; Amos 3:8; 1 Corinthians 9:16
  • 3. Job 12:4
  • 4. S Job 17:2; S Psalms 119:21
  • 5. Jeremiah 6:7; Jeremiah 28:8
  • 6. S 2 Chronicles 36:16; S Jeremiah 6:10
  • 7. Jeremiah 44:16
  • 8. S Psalms 39:3; S Jeremiah 4:19
  • 9. S Job 4:2; S Jeremiah 6:11; Amos 3:8; Job 32:18-20; Acts 4:20
  • 10. Psalms 31:13; Jeremiah 6:25
  • 11. Nehemiah 6:6-13; Isaiah 29:21
  • 12. S Job 19:14; S Jeremiah 13:21; Psalms 41:9
  • 13. S Psalms 57:4; S Jeremiah 18:22; Luke 11:53-54
  • 14. S 1 Kings 19:2
  • 15. S 1 Samuel 18:25; S Jeremiah 11:19
  • 16. Jeremiah 1:8; Romans 8:31
  • 17. Jeremiah 15:15; Jeremiah 17:18
  • 18. S Psalms 129:2; Jeremiah 15:20
  • 19. S Jeremiah 7:19; Jeremiah 23:40
  • 20. S Psalms 7:9; S Jeremiah 17:10
  • 21. Deuteronomy 32:35; S Romans 12:19; Psalms 54:7; Psalms 59:10
  • 22. Psalms 62:8; Jeremiah 11:20
  • 23. S Isaiah 12:6
  • 24. Psalms 34:6; Psalms 35:10
  • 25. S Psalms 97:10
  • 26. S Job 3:8,16; Job 3:3; Jeremiah 15:10

Footnotes 2

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