Jeremiah 20:10

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

Cross-references · 27

• Ps 41:9Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
• Ps 31:13For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
• Isa 29:21That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
• Jer 18:18Then said they, 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 smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
• Ps 64:2–4Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
• Prov 10:18He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
• Ezek 22:9In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.
• Jer 6:25Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.
• Ps 55:13–14But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.
• Acts 24:13Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
• Luke 20:20And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.
• Luke 11:53–54And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:
• Neh 6:6–13Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these words.
• Job 19:19All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
• 1 Kgs 19:2Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.
• 1 Kgs 21:20And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.
• Acts 6:11–15Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
• Matt 26:59–60Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
• 1 Kgs 22:27And say, Thus saith 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 6:19–28Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him; but she could not:
• Acts 23:12–15And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
• Acts 24:1–9And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul.
• Acts 7:54When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
• Acts 5:33When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.
• 1 Kgs 22:8And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
• Luke 12:52–53For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
• Ps 57:4My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that 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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