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Jeremiah 18:20

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Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, [and] to turn away thy wrath from them.

Shall evil {H7451} be recompensed {H7999} for good {H2896}? for they have digged {H3738} a pit {H7745} for my soul {H5315}. Remember {H2142} that I stood {H5975} before {H6440} thee to speak {H1696} good {H2896} for them, and to turn away {H7725} thy wrath {H2534} from them.

Is good to be repaid with evil? For they have dug a pit [to trap] me. Remember how I stood before you and spoke well of them, in order to turn your anger away from them?

Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.

Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.

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Cross-References

  • Psalms 57:6 (6 votes)

    They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen [themselves]. Selah.

  • Psalms 35:7 (6 votes)

    For without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a pit, [which] without cause they have digged for my soul.

  • Psalms 106:23 (5 votes)

    Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy [them].

  • Psalms 35:12 (4 votes)

    They rewarded me evil for good [to] the spoiling of my soul.

  • 1 Samuel 24:17 (4 votes)

    And he said to David, Thou [art] more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.

  • 1 Samuel 24:19 (4 votes)

    For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the LORD reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day.

  • Ecclesiastes 10:8 (3 votes)

    He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.