English Standard Version
Jeremiah 18:19
19Hear me, O Lord, and listen to the voice of my adversaries.
Jeremiah 18:19 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Give heed to me, O Lord, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
- New International Version (NIV)Listen to me, Lord; hear what my accusers are saying!
- New King James Version (NKJV)Give heed to me, O Lord, And listen to the voice of those who contend with me!
- New Living Translation (NLT)Lord, hear me and help me! Listen to what my enemies are saying.
Context of Jeremiah 18:19
17Like the east wind I will scatter them before the enemy. I will show them my back, not my face, in the day of their calamity." 18Then they said, "Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words." Hear me, O Lord, and listen to the voice of my adversaries. 20Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them. 21Therefore deliver up their children to famine; give them over to the power of the sword; let their wives become childless and widowed. May their men meet death by pestilence, their youths be struck down by the sword in battle.
Read all of Jeremiah 18Jeremiah 18:19 word by word
הַקְשִׁ֥יבָה יְהוָ֖ה אֵלָ֑י וּשְׁמַ֖ע לְק֥וֹל יְרִיבָֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Jeremiah 18:19
- Jeremiah 20:12O Lord of hosts, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause.
- Psalms 55:16But I call to God, and the Lord will save me.
- Psalms 64:1Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy.
- Psalms 56:1Be gracious to me, O God, for man tramples on me; all day long an attacker oppresses me;
- Psalms 109:4In return for my love they accuse me, but I give myself to prayer.
- Micah 7:8Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me.
- Luke 6:11But they were filled with fury and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus.
- 2 Kings 19:16Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear; open your eyes, O Lord, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God.
- Nehemiah 4:4Hear, O our God, for we are despised. Turn back their taunt on their own heads and give them up to be plundered in a land where they are captives.
- Nehemiah 6:9For they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, "Their hands will drop from the work, and it will not be done." But now, O God, strengthen my hands.
Commentaries on Jeremiah 18:19
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 19The voice - i. e., the outcry and threats.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 18-23Verses 18-23 When the prophet called to repentance, instead of obeying the call, the people devised devices against him. Thus do sinners deal with the great Intercessor, crucifying him afresh, and speaking against him on earth, while his blood is speaking for them in heaven. But the prophet had done his duty to them; and the same will be our rejoicing in a day of evil.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 19-20Jeremiah told the Lord about the unfairness of his enemies' actions against him.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1919. Give heed--contrasted with, "let us not give heed" (Jr 18:18). As they give no heed to me, do Thou, O Lord, give heed to me, and let my words at least have their weight with Thee.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Jeremiah 18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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