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 6:26Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come on us.
• Ps 140:5The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.
• Jer 25:34–36Wail, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow in dust, you leader of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are fully come, and you shall fall like a goodly vessel.
• Zeph 1:10–11In that day, says Yahweh, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.
• Ps 56:5–7All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.
• Isa 10:30Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth!
• Zeph 1:16a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.
• Jer 20:10For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.”
• Isa 22:1–4The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?
• Jer 48:3–5The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!
• Ps 38:12They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
• Jer 9:20–21Yet hear Yahweh’s word, you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation.
• Ps 64:4–5to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.
• Jer 4:31For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who gives birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, “Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers.”
• Matt 22:15Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.
• Jer 4:19–20My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I can’t hold my peace; because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
• Jer 47:2–3Yahweh says: “Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and will become an overflowing stream, and will overflow the land and all that is therein, the city and those who dwell therein. The men will cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.
• Jer 18:20Shall evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

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