Jeremiah 18:19-23

19 Listen attentively to me, [O] Yahweh, and listen to [the] voice of my opponents.
20 Should good be repaid in place of evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember my standing {before you} to speak good for them, to avert your wrath from them.
21 {Therefore} give their children to the famine, and hand them over to [the] {power} of [the] sword, and let their wives be bereaved and widows, and let their men be killed by death, their young men struck dead [by the] sword in the battle.
22 Let a cry for help be heard from their houses when you suddenly bring upon them [the] raiding band, for they have dug a pit to catch me, and they have fixed secretly a trap for my feet.
23 But you, [O] Yahweh, you know {all their plans of assassination against me}. You must not make atonement for their iniquity, and you must not cause their sin to be blotted out from {before you}. But let them be overthrown {before you}. Deal with them in the time of your anger.

Footnotes 6

  • [a]. Literally "to the face of you"
  • [b]. Literally "To thus"
  • [c]. Literally "hand"
  • [d]. Literally "all of their plan against me to the death"
  • [e]. Literally "to the face of you"
  • [f]. Literally "to the face of you"
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