Jeremiah 18:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Give thought to me, O Lord, and give ear to the voice of those who put forward a cause against me.

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  • Neh 6:9 : 9 For they were hoping to put fear in us, saying, Their hands will become feeble and give up the work so that it may not get done. But now, O God, make my hands strong.
  • Ps 55:16-17 : 16 As for me, I will make my prayer to God, and he will be my saviour. 17 In the evening and in the morning and in the middle of the day I will make my prayer with sounds of grief; and my voice will come to his ears.
  • Ps 109:28 : 28 They may give curses but you give blessing; when they come up against me, put them to shame; but let your servant be glad.
  • Jer 20:12 : 12 But, O Lord of armies, testing the upright and seeing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them; for I have put my cause before you.
  • Mic 7:8 : 8 Do not be glad because of my sorrow, O my hater: after my fall I will be lifted up; when I am seated in the dark, the Lord will be a light to me.
  • Luke 6:11-12 : 11 But they were full of wrath, and were talking together about what they might do to Jesus. 12 And it came about in those days that he went out to the mountain for prayer; and he was all night in prayer to God.
  • Ps 56:1-3 : 1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Jonath elem rehokim. Of David. Michtam. When the Philistines took him in Gath.> Have mercy on me, O God, for man is attempting my destruction; every day he makes cruel attacks against me. 2 My haters are ever ready to put an end to me; great numbers are lifting themselves up against me. 3 In the time of my fear, I will have faith in you.
  • Ps 64:1-4 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> O God, let the voice of my grief come to your ear: keep my life from the fear of those who are against me. 2 Keep me safe from the secret purpose of wrongdoers; from the band of the workers of evil; 3 Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words; 4 So that in secret they may let loose their arrows at the upright, suddenly and unseen.
  • Ps 109:4 : 4 For my love they give me back hate; but I have given myself to prayer.
  • 2 Kgs 19:16 : 16 Let your ear be turned to us, O Lord, and let your eyes be open, O Lord, and see; take note of all the words of Sennacherib who has sent men to say evil against the living God.
  • Neh 4:4-5 : 4 Give ear, O our God, for we are looked down on: let their words of shame be turned back on themselves, and let them be given up to wasting in a land where they are prisoners: 5 Let not their wrongdoing be covered or their sin washed away from before you: for they have made you angry before the builders.

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  • Ps 35:1-2
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    1 <Of David.> O Lord, be on my side against those who are judging me; be at war with those who make war against me.

    2 Be a breastplate to me, and give me your help.

  • Ps 55:1-3
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    1 <To the chief music-maker, on Neginoth. Maschil. Of David.> Give hearing to my prayer, O God; and let not your ear be shut against my request.

    2 Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow;

    3 I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

  • 1 <A Prayer. Of David.> Let my cause come to your ears, O Lord, give attention to my cry; give ear to my prayer which goes not out from false lips.

  • 20 Is evil to be the reward of good? for they have made a deep hole for my soul. Keep in mind how I took my place before you, to say a good word for them so that your wrath might be turned away from them.

  • 23 Let your ears be open to my voice; give attention to what I say.

  • 2 Lord, let my voice come before you: let your ears be awake to the voice of my prayer.

  • 18 Then they said, Come, let us make a design against Jeremiah; for teaching will never be cut off from the priest, or wisdom from the wise, or the word from the prophet. Come, let us make use of his words for an attack on him, and let us give attention with care to what he says.

  • 15 See, they say to me, Where is the word of the Lord? let it come now.

  • Ps 5:1-2
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    74%

    1 <To the chief music-maker on wind instruments. A Psalm. Of David.> Give ear to my words, O Lord; give thought to my heart-searchings.

    2 Let the voice of my cry come to you, my King and my God; for to you will I make my prayer.

  • 19 Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath.

  • 2 Let my prayer come before you, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.

  • 6 O Lord, give ear to my prayer; and take note of the sound of my requests.

  • Mic 6:1-2
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    1 Give ear now to the words of the Lord: Up! put forward your cause before the mountains, let your voice be sounding among the hills.

    2 Give ear, O you mountains, to the Lord's cause, and take note, you bases of the earth: for the Lord has a cause against his people, and he will take it up with Israel.

  • 20 But, O Lord of armies, judging in righteousness, testing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them: for I have put my cause before you.

  • 6 Give ear to the argument of my mouth, and take note of the words of my lips.

  • 1 <A Psalm. Of David.> Lord, I have made my cry to you; come to me quickly; give ear to my voice, when it goes up to you.

  • 17 Give ear with care to my words, and keep what I say in your minds.

  • 1 <A Prayer of the man who is in trouble, when he is overcome, and puts his grief before the Lord.> Give ear to my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to you.

  • 6 My cry has gone up to you, for you will give me an answer, O God: let your ear be turned to me, and give attention to my words.

  • 6 Give ear to my cry, for I am made very low: take me out of the hands of my haters, for they are stronger than I.

  • 1 <A Psalm. Of David.> Let my prayer come to you, O Lord; give ear to my requests for your grace; keep faith with me, and give me an answer in your righteousness;

  • 19 See how those who are against me are increased, for bitter is their hate of me.

  • 19 Do not be far from me, O Lord: O my strength, come quickly to my help.

  • 24 Be my judge, O Lord my God, in your righteousness; do not let them be glad over me.

  • Jer 18:22-23
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    22 Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly.

    23 But you, Lord, have knowledge of all the designs which they have made against my life; let not their evil-doing be covered or their sin be washed away from before your eyes: but let it be a cause of falling before you: so do to them in the time of your wrath.

  • 15 O Lord, you have knowledge: keep me in mind and come to my help, and give their right reward to those who are attacking me; take me not away, for you are slow to be angry: see how I have undergone shame because of you from all those who make little of your word;

  • 2 I will say to God, Do not put me down as a sinner; make clear to me what you have against me.

  • 20 Let this be the reward given to my haters from the Lord, and to those who say evil of my soul.

  • 1 <To the chief music-maker. On a corded instrument. Of David.> Let my cry come to you, O God; let your ears be open to my prayer.

  • Jer 17:18-19
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    18 Let them be put to shame who are attacking me, but let me not be shamed; let them be overcome with fear, but let me not be overcome: send on them the day of evil, and put them to destruction twice over.

    19 This is what the Lord has said to me: Go and take your place in the doorway of Benjamin, where the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the doorways of Jerusalem;

  • 1 <Maschil. Of Asaph.> Give ear, O my people, to my law; let your ears be bent down to the words of my mouth.

  • 16 I said, Let them not be glad over me; when my foot is moved, let them not be lifted up with pride against me.

  • 12 But, O Lord of armies, testing the upright and seeing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them; for I have put my cause before you.

  • 1 And now, O Job, give ear to my words, and take note of all I say.

  • 9 From the evil-doers who are violent to me, and from those who are round me, desiring my death.

  • 149 Let my voice come to you, in your mercy; O Lord, by your decisions give me life.

  • 7 O Lord, let the voice of my cry come to your ears: have mercy on me, and give me an answer.

  • 12 Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

  • 29 Why will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the Lord.

  • 17 Let not your face be covered from your servant, for I am in trouble; quickly give me an answer.

  • 7 Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.

  • 1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

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    6 Come up, Lord, in your wrath; be lifted up against my haters; be awake, my God, give orders for the judging.