Another Plot against Jeremiah

(Jeremiah 11:18–23)

Then [some] said,“Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”

19 

Attend to me, O LORD.

Hear what my accusers are saying!

20 

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.

21 

Therefore, hand their children over to famine;

pour out the power of the sword upon them.

Let their wives become childless and widowed;

let their husbands be slain by disease,

their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

22 

Let 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.

23 

But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me.

Do not wipe out their guilt

[or] blot out their sin from Your sight.

Let them be overthrown before You;

deal with them in the time of Your anger. 19