Jeremiah 18:22

Jeremiah asks that sudden disaster overtake the homes of those who plotted to trap him. He appeals to God against their hidden snares.

Cross-references · 18

• Jer 6:26O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
• Ps 140:5The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah
• Jer 25:34–36Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. For the days of your slaughter have come; you will fall and be shattered like fine pottery.
• Zeph 1:10–11On that day,” declares the LORD, “a cry will go up from the Fish Gate, a wail from the Second District, and a loud crashing from the hills.
• Ps 56:5–7All day long they twist my words; all their thoughts are on my demise.
• Isa 10:30Cry aloud, O Daughter of Gallim! Listen, O Laishah! O wretched Anathoth!
• Zeph 1:16a day of horn blast and battle cry against the fortified cities, and against the high corner towers.
• Jer 20:10For 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.”
• Isa 22:1–4This is the burden against the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops,
• Jer 48:3–5A voice cries out from Horonaim: ‘Devastation and great destruction!’
• Ps 38:12Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.
• Jer 9:20–21Now, O women, hear the word of the LORD. Open your ears to the word of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail, and one another to lament.
• Ps 64:4–5ambushing the innocent in seclusion, shooting suddenly, without fear.
• Jer 4:31For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child—the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the murderers!”
• Matt 22:15Then the Pharisees went out and conspired to trap Jesus in His words.
• Jer 4:19–20My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the horn, the alarm of battle.
• Jer 47:2–3This is what the LORD says: “See how the waters are rising from the north and becoming an overflowing torrent. They will overflow the land and its fullness, the cities and their inhabitants. The people will cry out, and all who dwell in the land will wail
• Jer 18:20Should 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.

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