Jeremiah 18:18–23

PLOT AGAINST JEREMIAH

¹⁸Then certain ones said, “Come, let’s make plans against Jeremiah,^o for instruction will never be lost from the priest,^p or counsel from the wise, or a word from the prophet.^q Come, let’s denounce him^C and pay no attention to all his words.”

¹⁹Pay attention to me, Lord.

Hear what my opponents are saying!^r

²⁰Should good be repaid with evil?

Yet they have dug a pit for me.^s

Remember how I stood before you

to speak good on their behalf,

to turn your anger from them.

²¹Therefore, hand their children over to famine,^t

and give them over to the power of the sword.

Let their wives become childless and widowed,

their husbands slain by deadly disease,^D

their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

²²Let a cry be heard from their houses

when you suddenly bring raiders against them,

for they have dug a pit to capture me

and have hidden snares for my feet.^u

²³But you, Lord, know

all their deadly plots against me.

Do not wipe out their iniquity;^v

do not blot out their sin before you.

Let them be forced to stumble before you;

deal with them in the time of your anger.