Jeremiah 20:11

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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.

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  • Jer 1:8 : 8 Have no fear because of them: for I am with you, to keep you safe, says the Lord.
  • Jer 15:20 : 20 And I will make you a strong wall of brass to this people; they will be fighting against you, but they will not overcome you: for I am with you to keep you safe, says the Lord.
  • Jer 17:18 : 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.
  • Jer 1:19 : 19 They will be fighting against you, but they will not overcome you: for I am with you, says the Lord, to give you salvation.
  • Ps 35:26 : 26 Let all those who take pleasure in my troubles be shamed and come to nothing: let those who are lifted up against me be covered with shame and have no honour.
  • Ps 40:14 : 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.
  • Jer 23:40 : 40 And I will give you a name without honour for ever, and unending shame which will never go from the memory of men.
  • Deut 32:35-36 : 35 Punishment is mine and reward, at the time of the slipping of their feet: for the day of their downfall is near, sudden will be their fate. 36 For the Lord will be judge of his people, he will have pity for his servants; when he sees that their power is gone, there is no one, shut up or free.
  • Ps 6:10 : 10 Let all those who are against me be shamed and deeply troubled; let them be turned back and suddenly put to shame.
  • Ps 66:5 : 5 Come and see the works of God: he is to be feared in all he does to the children of men.
  • Isa 41:10 : 10 Have no fear, for I am with you; do not be looking about in trouble, for I am your God; I will give you strength, yes, I will be your helper; yes, my true right hand will be your support.
  • Rom 8:31 : 31 What may we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
  • Ps 27:1-2 : 1 <Of David.> The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me? 2 When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame.
  • Dan 12:2 : 2 And a number of those who are sleeping in the dust of the earth will come out of their sleep, some to eternal life and some to eternal shame.
  • Isa 41:14 : 14 Have no fear, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will be your helper, says the Lord, even he who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 45:16 : 16 All those who have gone against him will be put to shame; the makers of images will be made low.
  • Ps 47:2 : 2 For the Lord Most High is to be feared; he is a great King over all the earth.
  • Ps 65:5 : 5 You will give us an answer in righteousness by great acts of power, O God of our salvation; you who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of the far-off lands of the sea;
  • 2 Tim 4:17 : 17 But the Lord was by my side and gave me strength; so that through me the news might be given out in full measure, and all the Gentiles might give ear: and I was taken out of the mouth of the lion.
  • John 18:4-6 : 4 Then Jesus, having knowledge of everything which was coming on him, went forward and said to them, Who are you looking for? 5 Their answer was, Jesus the Nazarene. Jesus said, I am he. And Judas, who was false to him, was there at their side. 6 And when he said to them, I am he, they went back, falling to the earth.

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  • 10 For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

  • 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.

  • 26 Let all those who take pleasure in my troubles be shamed and come to nothing: let those who are lifted up against me be covered with shame and have no honour.

  • 11 Truly, all those who are angry with you will be made low and put to shame: those desiring to do you wrong will come to nothing and never again be seen.

  • Isa 50:7-8
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    7 For the Lord God is my helper; I will not be put to shame: so I have made my face like a rock, and I am certain that he will give me my right.

    8 He who takes up my cause is near; who will go to law with me? let us come together before the judge: who is against me? let him come near to me.

  • 4 And he who is against me may not say, I have overcome him; and those who are troubling me may not be glad when I am moved.

  • 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.

  • Ps 118:6-7
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    6 The Lord is on my side; I will have no fear: what is man able to do to me?

    7 The Lord is my great helper: I will see my desire against my haters.

  • 17 Let them be overcome and troubled for ever; let them be put to shame and come to destruction;

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 19 They will be fighting against you, but they will not overcome you: for I am with you, says the Lord, to give you salvation.

  • 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;

  • 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 From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.

  • 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 118:11-13
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    11 They are round me, yes, they are all about me; but in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

    12 They are round me like bees; but they are put out like a fire among thorns; for in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

    13 I have been hard pushed by you, so that I might have a fall: but the Lord was my helper.

  • 2 Let those who go after my soul have shame and trouble; let those who have evil designs against me be turned back and made foolish.

  • 19 They came on me in the day of my trouble: but the Lord was my support.

  • 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.

  • 11 By this I see that you have pleasure in me, because my hater does not overcome me.

  • 7 O Lord, you have been false to me, and I was tricked; you are stronger than I, and have overcome me: I have become a thing to be laughed at all the day, everyone makes sport of me.

  • 15 My downfall is ever before me, and I am covered with the shame of my face;

  • 5 Together they will be like men of war, crushing down their haters into the earth of the streets in the fight; they will make war because the Lord is with them: and the horsemen will be shamed.

  • 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.

  • 2 Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young, but my troubles have not overcome me.

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

  • 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.

  • 29 Let my haters be clothed with shame, covering themselves with shame as with a robe.

  • 10 And my hater will see it and be covered with shame; she who said to me, Where is the Lord your God? my eyes will see their desire effected on her, now she will be crushed under foot like the dust of the streets.

  • 10 The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?

  • 11 Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.

  • 13 False statements against me have come to my ears; fear was on every side: they were talking together against me, designing to take away my life.

  • Ps 27:1-3
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    1 <Of David.> The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me?

    2 When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame.

    3 Even if an army came against me with its tents, my heart would have no fear: if war was made on me, my faith would not be moved.

  • 37 I go after my haters and overtake them; not turning back till they are all overcome.

  • 18 They came on me in the day of my trouble; but the Lord was my support.

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    1 <A Psalm. Of David. When he went in flight from Absalom his son.> Lord, how greatly are they increased who make attacks on me! in great numbers they come against me.

  • 19 But they are strong who have hate for me without cause: those who are against me falsely are increased in numbers.

  • 20 And I will make you a strong wall of brass to this people; they will be fighting against you, but they will not overcome you: for I am with you to keep you safe, says the Lord.

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    6 I will have no fear, though ten thousand have come round me, putting themselves against me.

  • 13 May the Lord be judge between me and you, and may the Lord give me my rights against you, but my hand will never be lifted up against you.

  • 10 Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.

  • 13 They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;