Jeremiah 18:19
Good News Translation
So I prayed, "LORD, hear what I am saying and listen to what my enemies are saying about me.

New Revised Standard Version
Give heed to me, O LORD, and listen to what my adversaries say!

Contemporary English Version
Please, LORD, answer my prayer. Make my enemies stop accusing me of evil.

New American Bible
Pay attention to me, O LORD, and listen to what my adversaries say.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Give heed to me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my adversaries.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Give heed to me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my adversaries.

Give.

Jeremiah 20:12 And thou, O Lord of hosts, prover of the just, who seest the reins and the heart: let me see, I beseech thee, thy vengeance on them: for to thee I have laid open my cause.

Psalm 55:16,17 But I have cried to God: and the Lord will save me. . . .

Psalm 64:1-4 Unto the end, a psalm for David. [2] Hear O God, my prayer, when I make supplication to thee: deliver my soul from the fear of the enemy. . . .

Psalm 56:1-3 Unto the end, for a people that is removed at a distance from the sanctuary: for David, for an inscription of a title (or pillar) when the Philistines held him in Geth. [2] Have mercy on me, O God, for man hath trodden me under foot; all the day long he hath afflicted me fighting against me. . . .

Psalm 109:4,28 Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer. . . .

Micah 7:8 Rejoice not, thou my enemy, over me, because I am fallen: I shall arise, when I sit in darkness, the Lord is my light.

Luke 6:11,12 And they were filled with madness: and they talked one with another, what they might do to Jesus. . . .

hearken.

2 Kings 19:16 Incline thy ear, and hear: open, O Lord, thy eyes and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent to upbraid unto us the living God.

Nehemiah 4:4,5 Hear thou our God, for we are despised: turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them to be despised in a land of captivity. . . .

Nehemiah 6:9 For all these men thought to frighten us, thinking that our hands would cease from the work, and that we would leave off. Wherefore I strengthened my hands the more:

Context
The Plot Against Jeremiah
18And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremiah: for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet: come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words. 19Give heed to me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my adversaries.20Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy sight, to speak good for them, and to turn away thy indignation from them.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 18:18
And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremiah: for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet: come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words.

Jeremiah 18:20
Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy sight, to speak good for them, and to turn away thy indignation from them.

Lamentations 3:59
Res. Thou hast seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me: judge thou my judgment.

Jeremiah 18:18
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