Jeremiah 20:12

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Jeremiah 20:10–14 · Berean Standard Bible

10 For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him.”

11 But the LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly put to shame, with an everlasting disgrace that will never be forgotten.

12 O LORD of Hosts, who examines the righteous, who sees the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.

13 Sing to the LORD! Praise the LORD! For He rescues the life of the needy from the hands of evildoers.

14 Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.

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Jeremiah 17:10

I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.

Psalms 7:9

Put an end to the evil of the wicked, but establish the righteous, O righteous God who searches hearts and minds.

Psalms 11:5

The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence.

Psalms 17:3

You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.

Psalms 26:2

Test me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind.

Psalms 26:3

For Your loving devotion is before my eyes, and I have walked in Your truth.

Psalms 139:23

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.

Revelation 2:23

Then I will strike her children dead, and all the churches will know that I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.

Jeremiah 11:20

O LORD of Hosts, who judges righteously, who examines the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.

Jeremiah 12:8

My inheritance has become to Me like a lion in the forest. She has roared against Me; therefore I hate her.

Jeremiah 17:18

Let my persecutors be put to shame, but do not let me be put to shame. Let them be terrified, but do not let me be terrified. Bring upon them the day of disaster and shatter them with double destruction.

Jeremiah 18:19

Attend to me, O LORD. Hear what my accusers are saying!

Jeremiah 18:20

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.

Jeremiah 18:21

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.

Jeremiah 18:22

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.

Jeremiah 18:23

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.

2 Chronicles 24:22

Thus King Joash failed to remember the kindness that Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had extended to him. Instead, Joash killed Jehoiada’s son. As he lay dying, Zechariah said, “May the LORD see this and call you to account.”

Psalms 54:7

For He has delivered me from every trouble, and my eyes have stared down my foes.

Psalms 59:10

My God of loving devotion will come to meet me; God will let me stare down my foes.

Psalms 109:6

Set over him a wicked man; let an accuser stand at his right hand.

Psalms 109:7

When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayer be regarded as sin.

Psalms 109:8

May his days be few; may another take his position.

Psalms 109:9

May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

Psalms 109:10

May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.

Psalms 109:11

May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

Psalms 109:12

May there be no one to extend kindness to him, and no one to favor his fatherless children.

Psalms 109:13

May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.

Psalms 109:14

May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and the sin of his mother never be blotted out.

Psalms 109:15

May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.

Psalms 109:16

For he never thought to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and brokenhearted, even to their death.

Psalms 109:17

The cursing that he loved, may it fall on him; the blessing in which he refused to delight, may it be far from him.

Psalms 109:18

The cursing that he wore like a coat, may it soak into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.

Psalms 109:19

May it be like a robe wrapped about him, like a belt tied forever around him.

Psalms 109:20

May this be the LORD’s reward to my accusers, to those who speak evil against me.

Revelation 6:10

And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You avenge our blood and judge those who dwell upon the earth?”

Revelation 18:20

Rejoice over her, O heaven, O saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced for you His judgment against her.

Revelation 19:2

For His judgments are true and just. He has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality. He has avenged the blood of His servants that was poured out by her hand.”

Revelation 19:3

And a second time they called out: “Hallelujah! Her smoke rises forever and ever.”

1 Samuel 1:15

“No, my lord,” Hannah replied. “I am a woman oppressed in spirit. I have not had any wine or strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the LORD.

Psalms 62:8

Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts before Him. God is our refuge. Selah

Psalms 86:4

Bring joy to Your servant, for to You, O Lord, I lift up my soul.

Isaiah 37:14

So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.

Isaiah 38:14

I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”

1 Peter 2:23

When they heaped abuse on Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly.

1 Peter 4:19

So then, those who suffer according to God’s will should entrust their souls to their faithful Creator and continue to do good.