Jeremiah 20:10

Jeremiah is surrounded by whispering enemies, even friends, watching for his fall. Betrayal deepens his suffering.

Cross-references · 27

• Ps 41:9Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.
• Ps 31:13For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.
• Isa 29:21who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.
• Jer 18:18Then they said, “Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”
• Ps 64:2–4Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;
• Prov 10:18He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.
• Ezek 22:9Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.
• Jer 6:25Don’t go out into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror, are on every side.
• Ps 55:13–14But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend.
• Acts 24:13Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.
• Luke 20:20They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.
• Luke 11:53–54As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;
• Neh 6:6–13in which was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel. Because of that, you are building the wall. You would be their king, according to these words.
• Job 19:19All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
• 1 Kgs 19:2Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”
• 1 Kgs 21:20Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.
• Acts 6:11–15Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”
• Matt 26:59–60Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;
• 1 Kgs 22:27Say, ‘Thus says the king, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.”’”
• Mark 6:19–28Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him, but she couldn’t,
• Acts 23:12–15When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
• Acts 24:1–9After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Paul.
• Acts 7:54Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.
• Acts 5:33But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.
• 1 Kgs 22:8The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”
• Luke 12:52–53For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
• Ps 57:4My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

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