Jeremiah 17:18

World English Bible (2000)

Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed; let them be dismayed, but don't let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

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  • Ps 35:4 : 4 Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.
  • Ps 35:8 : 8 Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.
  • Jer 11:20 : 20 But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I shall see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause.
  • Ps 40:14 : 14 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.
  • Jer 20:11 : 11 But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten.
  • Ps 83:17-18 : 17 Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish; 18 that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth. For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.
  • Ps 25:2-3 : 2 My God, I have trusted in you. Don't let me be shamed. Don't let my enemies triumph over me. 3 Yes, no one who waits for you shall be shamed. They shall be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.
  • Job 16:14 : 14 He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant.
  • Ps 35:26-27 : 26 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me. 27 Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor my righteous cause. Yes, let them say continually, "Yahweh be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!"
  • Jer 14:17 : 17 You shall say this word to them, Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.
  • Jer 16:18 : 18 First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.
  • Jer 17:16 : 16 As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you; neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was before your face.
  • Jer 18:19-23 : 19 Give heed to me, Yahweh, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me. 20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them. 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle. 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet. 23 Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me; don't forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you; deal you with them in the time of your anger.
  • Rev 18:6 : 6 Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did, and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double.
  • Ps 70:2 : 2 Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.
  • Ps 71:1 : 1 In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Never let me be disappointed.

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  • Ps 40:14-15
    2 verses
    84%

    14 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.

    15 Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, "Aha! Aha!"

  • Ps 83:15-17
    3 verses
    81%

    15 so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.

    16 Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, Yahweh.

    17 Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;

  • Ps 35:4
    81%

    4 Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

  • Ps 35:24-26
    3 verses
    80%

    24 Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. Don't let them gloat over me.

    25 Don't let them say in their heart, "Aha! That's the way we want it!" Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him up!"

    26 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

  • Ps 70:2-3
    2 verses
    80%

    2 Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.

    3 Let them be turned because of their shame Who say, "Aha! Aha!"

  • Jer 20:10-12
    3 verses
    79%

    10 For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall; perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

    11 But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten.

    12 But, Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause.

  • Jer 17:17
    79%

    17 Don't be a terror to me: you are my refuge in the day of evil.

  • Ps 71:13
    78%

    13 Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.

  • Jer 18:19-23
    5 verses
    76%

    19 Give heed to me, Yahweh, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.

    20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

    21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle.

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

    23 Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me; don't forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you; deal you with them in the time of your anger.

  • Ps 109:28-29
    2 verses
    74%

    28 They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be shamed, but your servant shall rejoice.

    29 Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

  • Ps 109:20
    74%

    20 This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh, of those who speak evil against my soul.

  • Ps 35:8
    74%

    8 Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

  • Ps 31:17
    74%

    17 Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.

  • Ps 140:9-10
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    74%

    9 As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

    10 Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.

  • Ps 129:5
    73%

    5 Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.

  • Ps 17:9
    73%

    9 from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.

  • Ps 17:13
    73%

    13 Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;

  • Ps 35:19
    73%

    19 Don't let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

  • Jer 18:17
    73%

    17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

  • Lam 1:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    21 They 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 proclaimed, and they shall be like me.

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

  • Ps 119:78
    73%

    78 Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.

  • Jer 11:20
    72%

    20 But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I shall see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause.

  • Jer 15:15
    72%

    15 Yahweh, you know; remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; don't take me away in your longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.

  • Ps 69:6
    72%

    6 Don't let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Armies. Don't let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel.

  • Ps 37:19
    72%

    19 They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil. In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

  • Job 27:7
    72%

    7 "Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

  • Ps 7:5
    72%

    5 let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.

  • Ps 6:10
    72%

    10 May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly. A meditation by David, which he sang to Yahweh, concerning the words of Cush, the Benjamite.

  • Jer 17:19
    72%

    19 Thus said Yahweh to me: Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;

  • Ps 59:11
    72%

    11 Don't kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.

  • Ps 118:11
    72%

    11 They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. In the name of Yahweh I indeed cut them off.

  • Ps 18:37-38
    2 verses
    72%

    37 I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I turn again until they are consumed.

    38 I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet.

  • Ps 44:15
    72%

    15 All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face,

  • Ps 13:4
    72%

    4 Lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed against him;" Lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.