Verse 20
Jeremiah 18:20
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Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.
Original Language Text
hebrew
הַ/יְשֻׁלַּ֤ם תַּֽחַת טוֹבָה֙ רָעָ֔ה כִּֽי כָר֥וּ שׁוּחָ֖ה לְ/נַפְשִׁ֑/י זְכֹ֣ר עָמְדִ֣/י לְ/פָנֶ֗י/ךָ לְ/דַבֵּ֤ר עֲלֵי/הֶם֙ טוֹבָ֔ה לְ/הָשִׁ֥יב אֶת חֲמָתְ/ךָ֖ מֵ/הֶֽם
English Translation
Will the payment be made for good by evil, because a pit has been dug for my soul? Remember I stood before you to speak good concerning them, to turn away your wrath from them.
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Chapter 18 Context
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The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,
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Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.
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Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he was making a work on the wheels.
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And when the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again...
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Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
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O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith Jehovah. Behold, as the clay in the po...
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At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to brea...
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if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that...
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And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to pla...
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if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they obey not my voice, then I will repent of the go...
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Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith Je...
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But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do every one after...
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Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Ask ye now among the nations, who hath heard such things; the virgin o...
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Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? or shall the cold waters that flow down f...
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For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false gods; and they have been made to...
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to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone that passeth thereby shall be...
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I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the fa...
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Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from...
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Give heed to me, O Jehovah, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
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Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before...
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Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and...
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Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them; for they hav...
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Yet, Jehovah, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me; forgive not their iniquity, neit...
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