Jeremiah 20:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

But, O LORD of hosts, who tests the righteous, and sees the reins and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them: for to you have I opened my cause.

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  • Jer 11:20 : 20 But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have presented my case to you.
  • Ps 62:8 : 8 Trust in Him at all times, you people; pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us. Selah.
  • Ps 54:7 : 7 For He has delivered me out of all trouble: and my eye has seen its desire upon my enemies.
  • Ps 59:10 : 10 The God of my mercy shall come to meet me; God shall let me see my desire upon my enemies.
  • Ps 7:9 : 9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God tries the hearts and minds.
  • Jer 17:10 : 10 I the LORD search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his deeds.
  • Ps 11:5 : 5 The LORD tests the righteous, but the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates.
  • Ps 17:3 : 3 You have tested my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tried me, and shall find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
  • Ps 26:2-3 : 2 Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; test my mind and my heart. 3 For Your lovingkindness is before my eyes, and I have walked in Your truth.
  • Ps 139:23 : 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts;
  • Isa 37:14 : 14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
  • Isa 38:14 : 14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I mourned as a dove: my eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
  • Ps 86:4 : 4 Bring joy to the soul of Your servant, for to You, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
  • Ps 109:6-9 : 6 Set a wicked man over him, and let Satan stand at his right hand. 7 When he is judged, let him be condemned, and let his prayer become sin. 8 Let his days be few, and let another take his office. 9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. 10 Let his children be continually wanderers and beg; let them seek their bread also from their desolate places. 11 Let the extortioner seize all that he has, and let strangers plunder his labor. 12 Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children. 13 Let his posterity be cut off; in the following generation let their name be blotted out. 14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by the LORD, and let not the sin of his mother be wiped out. 15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off their memory from the earth. 16 Because he did not remember to show mercy but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the brokenhearted. 17 As he loved cursing, so let it come to him; as he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him. 18 As he clothed himself with cursing as with a garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones. 19 Let it be to him as the garment that covers him, and as a belt with which he is girded continually. 20 Let this be the reward of my adversaries from the LORD, and of those who speak evil against my soul.
  • Jer 12:8 : 8 My heritage is to Me like a lion in the forest; it cries out against Me; therefore I have hated it.
  • 1 Sam 1:15 : 15 And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.
  • 2 Chr 24:22 : 22 So Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.
  • Jer 17:18 : 18 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
  • Jer 18:19-23 : 19 Give heed to me, O LORD, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me. 20 Shall evil be repaid for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before you to speak good for them, and to turn away your wrath from them. 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle. 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have dug a pit to take me, and hidden snares for my feet. 23 Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight, but let them be overthrown before you; deal thus with them in the time of your anger.
  • 1 Pet 2:23 : 23 Who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously:
  • 1 Pet 4:19 : 19 Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God entrust the keeping of their souls to him in doing good, as to a faithful Creator.
  • Rev 2:23 : 23 I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works.
  • Rev 6:10 : 10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?
  • Rev 18:20 : 20 Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets; for God has avenged you on her.
  • Rev 19:2-3 : 2 For true and righteous are His judgments: for He has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged the blood of His servants at her hand. 3 And again they said, Hallelujah. And her smoke rose up forever and ever.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 11:20
    93%

    20But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have presented my case to you.

  • Jer 12:3
    80%

    3But You, O LORD, know me; You have seen me and tested my heart toward You. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

  • Lam 3:59-60
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    79%

    59O LORD, You have seen my wrong; judge my case.

    60You have seen all their vengeance and all their schemes against me.

  • Jer 12:1
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    1Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead with You; yet let me speak with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those happy who deal very treacherously?

  • Ps 35:22-24
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    77%

    22This you have seen, O LORD; keep not silence; O Lord, be not far from me.

    23Stir up yourself, and awake to my judgment, even to my cause, my God and my Lord.

    24Judge me, O LORD my God, according to your righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.

  • Ps 26:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1Judge me, O LORD, for I have walked in my integrity; I have also trusted in the LORD; therefore I shall not fall.

    2Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; test my mind and my heart.

  • Ps 17:2-3
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    77%

    2Let my judgment come forth from your presence; let your eyes see what is right.

    3You have tested my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tried me, and shall find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

  • Ps 7:8-9
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    77%

    8The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to my integrity that is in me.

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  • Jer 15:15
    76%

    15O LORD, you know: remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in your longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered rebuke.

  • Jer 18:22-23
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    76%

    22Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have dug a pit to take me, and hidden snares for my feet.

    23Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight, but let them be overthrown before you; deal thus with them in the time of your anger.

  • Jer 20:10-11
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    10For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, they say, and we will report it. All my familiar friends watched for my faltering, saying, Perhaps he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

    11But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.

  • Lam 1:20-22
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    20Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my heart is troubled; my heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.

    21They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: you will bring the day that you have promised, and they shall be like me.

    22Let all their wickedness come before you; and do unto them, as you have done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

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    1O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongs; O God, to whom vengeance belongs, show yourself.

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    23Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts;

  • 1 Sam 24:15
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    15The LORD therefore be judge and judge between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.

  • Jer 17:10
    74%

    10I the LORD search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his deeds.

  • Ps 43:1
    74%

    1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

  • Jer 20:13
    74%

    13Sing to the LORD, praise the LORD: for he has delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.

  • Hab 1:3
    74%

    3Why do You show me iniquity, and cause me to behold trouble? For plundering and violence are before me; there are those who raise up strife and contention.

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    73%

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    7The LORD takes my part with those who help me; therefore, I will see my desire upon those who hate me.

  • Job 14:3
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    3And do You open Your eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with You?

  • Ps 18:24
    73%

    24Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.

  • Ps 35:1
    73%

    1Plead my cause, O LORD, with those who strive with me; fight against those who fight against me.

  • Ps 31:7
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    7I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have known my soul in adversities;

  • Ps 18:20
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    20The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he has recompensed me.

  • Ps 142:2
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    2I poured out my complaint before Him; I showed Him my trouble.

  • Ps 7:6
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    6Arise, O LORD, in your anger, lift up yourself because of the rage of my enemies; and awake for me to the judgment you have commanded.

  • Ps 59:10
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    10The God of my mercy shall come to meet me; God shall let me see my desire upon my enemies.

  • Ps 34:15
    72%

    15The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their cry.

  • Ps 140:12
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    12I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

  • 2 Sam 22:25
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  • 1 Pet 3:12
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    13Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer from those who hate me, you who lift me up from the gates of death:

  • Ps 35:19
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    19Let not my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without cause wink with the eye.

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    8Lead me, O LORD, in your righteousness because of my enemies; make your way straight before my face.