Jeremiah 20:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

O LORD, you have deceived me, and I was deceived: you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am in derision daily, everyone mocks me.

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  • Lam 3:14 : 14 I was a ridicule to all my people; their song all the day.
  • Ezek 3:14 : 14 So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.
  • Ps 22:6-7 : 6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people. 7 All who see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
  • Ps 69:9-9 : 9 For the zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproached you have fallen on me. 10 When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. 11 I made sackcloth my garment also, and I became a proverb to them. 12 Those who sit in the gate speak against me, and I was the song of the drunkards.
  • Ps 35:15-16 : 15 But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; yes, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they tore me, and did not cease: 16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
  • Exod 5:22-23 : 22 And Moses returned to the Lord and said, Lord, why have you mistreated this people? Why is it that you have sent me? 23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has done evil to this people; neither have you delivered your people at all.
  • Num 11:11-15 : 11 And Moses said to the LORD, Why have You afflicted Your servant? and why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You lay the burden of all this people upon me? 12 Have I conceived all this people? Have I begotten them, that You should say to me, Carry them in your bosom, as a nursing father bears the nursing child, to the land which You swore to their fathers? 13 Where should I have meat to give to all this people? for they weep to me, saying, Give us meat, that we may eat. 14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. 15 And if You deal thus with me, kill me, I pray You, out of hand, if I have found favor in Your sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
  • 2 Kgs 2:23 : 23 And he went up from there to Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead.
  • Jer 1:18-19 : 18 For behold, I have made you this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land. 19 They shall fight against you; but they shall not prevail against you; for I am with you, says the LORD, to deliver you.
  • Jer 15:10 : 10 Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on interest, nor men have lent to me on interest; yet every one of them curses me.
  • Jer 15:18 : 18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? will you be altogether to me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
  • Jer 17:16 : 16 As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd to follow you: neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was right before you.
  • Jer 20:9 : 9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak anymore in his name. But his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with holding back, and I could not stay.
  • Jer 29:26 : 26 The LORD has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, that there should be officers in the house of the LORD for every man who is mad and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in prison and in the stocks.
  • Hos 9:7 : 7 The days of visitation have come, the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it; the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of your iniquity and the great hatred.
  • Mic 3:8 : 8 But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
  • Luke 16:14 : 14 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they ridiculed him.
  • Luke 22:63-64 : 63 And the men who held Jesus mocked him, and beat him. 64 And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that struck you?
  • Luke 23:11 : 11 And Herod with his soldiers treated Him with contempt and mocked Him, arraying Him in a splendid robe, and sent Him back to Pilate.
  • Luke 23:35-36 : 35 And the people stood looking on. But the rulers, with them, sneered, saying, He saved others; let Him save Himself if He is Christ, the chosen of God. 36 The soldiers also mocked Him, coming to Him and offering Him vinegar,
  • Acts 17:18 : 18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and the Stoics, encountered him. And some said, What does this babbler want to say? Others said, He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods, because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.
  • Acts 17:32 : 32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, while others said, We will hear you again on this matter.
  • 1 Cor 4:9-9 : 9 For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men. 10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honored, but we are despised. 11 Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless. 12 And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure it. 13 Being defamed, we entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.
  • 1 Cor 9:6 : 6 Or is it only Barnabas and I who do not have the right to refrain from working?
  • Heb 11:36 : 36 Still others had trials of cruel mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment.
  • Jer 1:6-8 : 6 Then I said, Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. 7 But the LORD said to me, Do not say, I am a child: for you shall go to all to whom I shall send you, and whatever I command you, you shall speak. 8 Do not be afraid of their faces: for I am with you to deliver you, says the LORD.

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