Everyone who passes by it will be astonished
And shake his head.
cI will show them the back and not the face
In the day of their calamity.”
Jeremiah Persecuted
For they have bdug a pit for my life.
Remember that I cstood before You
To speak good1 for them,
To turn away Your wrath from them.
And pour out their blood
By the force of the sword;
Let their wives become widows
And bbereaved of their children.
Let their men be put to death,
Their young men be slain
By the sword in battle.
When You bring a troop suddenly upon them;
For they have dug a pit to take me,
And hidden snares for my feet.
Which is against me, to slay me.
aProvide no atonement for their iniquity,
Nor blot out their sin from Your sight;
But let them be overthrown before You.
Deal thus with them
In the time of Your banger.
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Jeremiah 18:18
Come, and let us devise devices - Let us form a conspiracy against him, accuse him of being a false prophet, and a contradicter of the words of God, for God has promised us protection, and he says we shall be destroyed, and that God will forsake his people.
Let us smite him with the tongue - On the tongue; so it should be rendered. Lying and false testimony are punished in the eastern countries, to the present day, by smiting the person on the mouth with a strong piece of leather like the sole of a shoe. Sometimes a bodkin is run through the tongue. Blasphemy, calumny, and cursing of parents, are usually punished in that way among the Chinese.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Jeremiah 18:18:
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