Verse 20

Is evil recompensed instead of good, That they have dug a pit for my soul? Remember my standing before Thee to speak good of them, To turn back Thy wrath from them.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 35:7 : 7 For without cause they hid for me their netpit, Without cause they digged for my soul.
  • Ps 57:6 : 6 A net they have prepared for my steps, Bowed down hath my soul, They have digged before me a pit, They have fallen into its midst. Selah.
  • Ps 106:23 : 23 And He saith to destroy them, Unless Moses, His chosen one, Had stood in the breach before Him, To turn back His wrath from destroying.
  • Ps 35:12 : 12 They pay me evil for good, bereaving my soul,
  • 1 Sam 24:17-19 : 17 And he saith unto David, `More righteous thou `art' than I; for thou hast done me good, and I have done thee evil; 18 and thou hast declared to-day how that thou hast done good with me, how that Jehovah shut me up into thy hand, and thou didst not slay me, 19 and that a man doth find his enemy, and hath sent him away in a good manner; and Jehovah doth repay thee good for that which thou didst to me this day.
  • Ps 109:4-5 : 4 For my love they oppose me, and I -- prayer! 5 And they set against me evil for good, And hatred for my love.
  • Ps 119:95 : 95 Thy wicked waited for me to destroy me, Thy testimonies I understand.
  • Prov 26:27 : 27 Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And the roller of a stone, to him it turneth.
  • Eccl 10:8 : 8 Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And whoso is breaking a hedge, a serpent biteth him.
  • Jer 18:22 : 22 A cry is heard from their houses, For Thou bringest against them suddenly a troop, For they dug a pit to capture me, And snares they have hidden for my feet.
  • Ezek 22:30-31 : 30 And I seek of them a man making a fence, And standing in the breach before Me, In behalf of the land -- not to destroy it, And I have not found. 31 And I pour out on them mine indignation, By fire of My wrath I have consumed them, Their way on their own head I have put, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'
  • Zech 3:1-2 : 1 And he sheweth me Joshua the high priest standing before the messenger of Jehovah, and the Adversary standing at his right hand, to be an adversary to him. 2 And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary: `Jehovah doth push against thee, O Adversary, Yea, push against thee doth Jehovah, Who is fixing on Jerusalem, Is not this a brand delivered from fire?'
  • John 10:32 : 32 Jesus answered them, `Many good works did I shew you from my Father; because of which work of them do ye stone me?'
  • John 15:25 : 25 but -- that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law -- They hated me without a cause.
  • Jer 7:16 : 16 And thou dost not pray for this people, Nor lift up for them crying and prayer, Nor intercede with Me, for I hear thee not.
  • Jer 11:14 : 14 And thou, thou dost not pray for this people, Nor dost thou lift up for them cry and prayer, For I do not hearken in the time of their calling unto Me for their vexation.
  • Jer 14:7-9 : 7 Surely our iniquities have testified against us, O Jehovah, work for Thy name's sake, For many have been our backslidings, Against Thee we have sinned. 8 O Hope of Israel -- its saviour in time of trouble, Why art Thou as a sojourner in the land? And as a traveller turned aside to lodge? 9 Why art Thou as one dumb? As a mighty one not able to save? And Thou `art' in our midst, O Jehovah, And Thy name over us is called, leave us not. 10 Thus said Jehovah concerning this people: Well they have loved to wander, Their feet they have not restrained, And Jehovah hath not accepted them, Now doth He remember their iniquity, And inspect their sin. 11 And Jehovah saith unto me: Thou dost not pray for this people for good,
  • Jer 14:20-15:1 : 20 We have known, O Jehovah, our wickedness, The iniquity of our fathers, For we have sinned against Thee. 21 Do not despise, for Thy name's sake, Dishonour not the throne of Thine honour, Remember, break not Thy covenant with us. 22 Are there among the vanities of the nations any causing rain? And do the heavens give showers? Art not Thou He, O Jehovah our God? And we wait for thee, for Thou -- Thou hast done all these! 1 And Jehovah saith unto me: Though Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My soul is not toward this people, Send from before My face, and they go out.
  • Prov 17:13 : 13 Whoso is returning evil for good, Evil moveth not from his house.
  • Job 6:27 : 27 Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.
  • Ps 7:15 : 15 A pit he hath prepared, and he diggeth it, And he falleth into a ditch he maketh.
  • Ps 38:20 : 20 And those paying evil for good accuse me, Because of my pursuing good.
  • Gen 18:22-32 : 22 and the men turn from thence, and go towards Sodom; and Abraham is yet standing before Jehovah. 23 And Abraham draweth nigh and saith, `Dost Thou also consume righteous with wicked? 24 peradventure there are fifty righteous in the midst of the city; dost Thou also consume, and not bear with the place for the sake of the fifty -- the righteous who `are' in its midst? 25 Far be it from Thee to do according to this thing, to put to death the righteous with the wicked; that it hath been -- as the righteous so the wicked -- far be it from Thee; doth the Judge of all the earth not do justice?' 26 And Jehovah saith, `If I find in Sodom fifty righteous in the midst of the city, then have I borne with all the place for their sake.' 27 And Abraham answereth and saith, `Lo, I pray thee, I have willed to speak unto the Lord, and I -- dust and ashes; 28 peradventure there are lacking five of the fifty righteous -- dost Thou destroy for five the whole of the city?' and He saith, `I destroy `it' not, if I find there forty and five.' 29 And he addeth again to speak unto Him and saith, `Peradventure there are found there forty?' and He saith, `I do `it' not, because of the forty.' 30 And he saith, `Let it not be, I Pray thee, displeasing to the Lord, and I speak: peradventure there are found there thirty?' and He saith, `I do `it' not, if I find there thirty.' 31 And he saith, `Lo, I pray thee, I have willed to speak unto the Lord: peradventure there are found there twenty?' and He saith, `I do not destroy `it', because of the twenty.' 32 And he saith, `Let it not be, I pray Thee, displeasing to the Lord, and I speak only this time: peradventure there are found there ten?' and He saith, `I do not destroy `it', because of the ten.'