Jer 18:18-23 | ESV | STEP | Then 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 .

k[See ver. 20 above]

Jeremiah 18:18-23

18 Then they said, ^a“Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, ^bfor the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. ^cCome, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.”

19 Hear me, O Lord,
and ^dlisten to the voice of my adversaries.
20 ^eShould good be repaid with evil?
Yet ^fthey have dug a pit for my life.
^gRemember how I stood before you
to speak good for them,
to turn away your wrath from them.
21 Therefore ^hdeliver up their children to famine;
give them over to the power of the sword;
let their wives become childless ⁱand widowed.
May their men meet death by pestilence,
their youths be struck down by the sword in battle.
22 ^jMay a cry be heard from their houses,
when you bring the plunderer suddenly upon them!
For ^kthey have dug a pit to take me
^land laid snares for my feet.
23 Yet ^myou, O Lord, know
all their plotting to kill me.
ⁿForgive not their iniquity,
nor blot out their sin from your sight.
Let them be overthrown before you;
deal with them in the time of your anger.