Jeremiah 18:23

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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.

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  • Isa 2:9 : 9 And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face: for this cause there will be no forgiveness for their sin.
  • 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.
  • Ps 35:4 : 4 Let them be overcome and put to shame who make attempts to take my soul; let those who would do me damage be turned back and made foolish.
  • Ps 69:22-28 : 22 Let their table before them be for their destruction; let their feasts become a net to take them. 23 Let their eyes be blind so that they may not see; let their bodies for ever be shaking. 24 Let your curse come on them; let the heat of your wrath overtake them. 25 Give their houses to destruction, and let there be no one in their tents. 26 Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you. 27 Let their punishment be increased; let them not come into your righteousness. 28 Let their names be taken from the book of the living, let them not be numbered with the upright.
  • Ps 109:14-15 : 14 Let the Lord keep in mind the wrongdoing of his fathers; and may the sin of his mother have no forgiveness. 15 Let them be ever before the eyes of the Lord, so that the memory of them may be cut off from the earth.
  • Ps 37:32-33 : 32 The sinners are watching the upright man, desiring to put him to death. 33 The Lord will not give him into their hands, or be against him when he is judged.
  • Ps 59:5 : 5 You, O Lord God of armies, are the God of Israel; come now and give punishment to the nations; have no mercy on any workers of deceit. (Selah.)
  • Isa 10:3 : 3 And what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the destruction which is coming from far? to whom will you go for help, and what will become of your glory?
  • Jer 8:12 : 12 Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: in the time of their punishment they will be made low, says the Lord.
  • Jer 11:18-20 : 18 And the Lord gave me knowledge of it and I saw it: then you made clear to me their doings. 19 But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name. 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.
  • Jer 11:23 : 23 Not one of them will keep his life, for I will send evil on the men of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.
  • Jer 15:15 : 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;
  • Jer 18:18 : 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.
  • Luke 21:22 : 22 For these are the days of punishment, in which all the things in the Writings will be put into effect.
  • Rom 2:5 : 5 But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;

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  • Jer 18:20-22
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    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.

    21 For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.

    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.

  • Lam 1:21-22
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    21 Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.

    22 Let all their evil-doing come before you; do to them as you have done to me for all my sins: for loud is the sound of my grief, and the strength of my heart is gone.

  • Ps 25:18-19
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    18 Give thought to my grief and my pain; and take away all my sins.

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

  • 15 Let them be ever before the eyes of the Lord, so that the memory of them may be cut off from the earth.

  • 10 Send them to destruction, O Lord; let their evil designs be the cause of their fall; let them be forced out by all their sins; because they have gone against your authority.

  • 3 But you, O Lord, have knowledge of me; you see me, searching and testing how my heart is with you: let them be pulled out like sheep to be put to death, make them ready for the day of death.

  • 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;

  • 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.

  • Lam 3:60-61
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    60 You have seen all the evil rewards they have sent on me, and all their designs against me.

    61 Their bitter words have come to your ears, O Lord, and all their designs against me;

  • 24 Let your curse come on them; let the heat of your wrath overtake them.

  • Ps 69:27-28
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    27 Let their punishment be increased; let them not come into your righteousness.

    28 Let their names be taken from the book of the living, let them not be numbered with the upright.

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

  • Jer 11:19-20
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    19 But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.

    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.

  • 9 As for those who come round me, let their heads be covered by the evil of their lips.

  • Ps 59:11-12
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    11 Put them not to death, for so my people will keep the memory of them: let them be sent in all directions by your power; make them low, O Lord our saviour.

    12 Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,

  • Jer 20:11-12
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    11 But the Lord is with me as a great one, greatly to be feared: so my attackers will have a fall, and they will not overcome me: they will be greatly shamed, because they have not done wisely, even with an unending shame, kept in memory for ever.

    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.

  • 7 By evil-doing they will not get free from punishment. In wrath, O God, let the peoples be made low.

  • 19 Do not let my haters be glad over me falsely; let not those who are against me without cause make sport of me.

  • 27 So that they may see that it is the work of your hand; that you, Lord, have done it.

  • 24 O Lord, put me right, but with wise purpose; not in your wrath, or you will make me small.

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

  • 3 Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.

  • 24 Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?

  • 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.

  • 10 For my haters are waiting secretly for me; and those who are watching for my soul are banded together in their evil designs,

  • 3 Evils have overcome us: but as for our sins, you will take them away.

  • 23 But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.

  • 15 The chances of my life are in your hand; take me out of the hands of my haters, and of those who go after me.

  • 43 Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;

  • 10 But you, O Lord, have mercy on me, lifting me up, so that I may give them their punishment.

  • Ps 139:19-20
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    19 If only you would put the sinners to death, O God; go far from me, you men of blood.

    20 For they go against you with evil designs, and your haters make sport of your name.

  • 28 But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.

  • 3 How long will you go on designing evil against a man? running against him as against a broken wall, which is on the point of falling?

  • 3 For see, they are watching in secret for my soul; the strong have come together against me? but not because of my sin, or my evil-doing, O Lord.

  • 13 Let those who say evil against my soul be overcome and put to shame; let my haters be made low and have no honour.

  • 13 Have mercy on me, O Lord, and see how I am troubled by my haters; let me be lifted up from the doors of death;

  • 5 O God, you see how foolish I am; and my wrongdoing is clear to you.

  • 2 And they do not say to themselves that I keep in mind all their sin; now their evil acts come round them on every side; they are before my face.

  • 2 Keep me safe from the secret purpose of wrongdoers; from the band of the workers of evil;

  • 14 Let those who go after my soul for its destruction have shame and trouble together; let them be turned back and made foolish who take pleasure in my trouble.