¹⁸They said, “Come on. Let’s make plans against Jeremiah. We’ll still have priests to teach us the law. We’ll always have wise people to give us advice. We’ll have prophets to bring us messages from the Lord. So come on. Let’s speak out against Jeremiah. We shouldn’t pay any attention to what he says.”

¹⁹Lord, please listen to me!

Hear what my enemies are saying about me!

²⁰Should the good things I’ve done be paid back with evil?

But my enemies have dug a pit for me.

Remember that I stood in front of you

and spoke up for them.

I tried to turn your anger away from them.

²¹So let their children die of hunger.

Let my enemies be killed in war.

Let their wives lose their children and husbands.

Let their men be put to death.

Let their young men be killed in battle.

²²Bring their enemies against them without warning.

Let cries be heard from their houses.

They have dug a pit to capture me.

They have hidden traps for my feet.

²³But Lord, you know

all about their plans to kill me.

Don’t forgive their crimes.

Don’t erase their sins from your sight.

Destroy my enemies.

Punish them when the time to show your anger comes.

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