Jeremiah 18:18-23

¹⁸Then they said, “Come and let’s devise plans against Jeremiah. Certainly the Law is not going to be lost by the priest, nor advice by the wise, nor the divine word by the prophet! Come, and let’s strike at him with our tongue, and let’s pay no attention to any of his words.”

19Give Your attention to me, Lord,

And listen to what my opponents are saying!

20Should good be repaid with evil?

For they have dug a pit for me.

Remember how I stood before You

To speak good in their behalf,

So as to turn Your wrath away from them.

21Therefore, give their children over to famine

And turn them over to the power of the sword;

And let their wives become childless and widowed.

Let their men also be slaughtered to death,

Their young men struck and killed by the sword in battle.

22May a cry be heard from their houses

When You suddenly bring raiders upon them;

For they have dug a pit to capture me

And hidden snares for my feet.

23But You, Lord, know

All their deadly schemes against me;

Do not forgive their wrongdoing

Or wipe out their sin from Your sight.

But may they be overthrown before You;

Deal with them in the time of Your anger!