Jeremiah 20:12

Jeremiah appeals to God who tests the righteous and sees the heart, entrusting his cause and asking to see God's justice. He commits his vindication to the Lord.

Cross-references · 25

• Jer 11:20But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I shall see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.
• Ps 62:8Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.
• Ps 54:7For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen triumph over my enemies.
• Jer 17:10“I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”
• Ps 59:10My God will go before me with his loving kindness. God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.
• Ps 7:9Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.
• Ps 26:2–3Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.
• Ps 139:23Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
• Ps 17:3You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.
• Isa 37:14Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh’s house, and spread it before Yahweh.
• Jer 18:19–23Give heed to me, Yahweh, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.
• Ps 11:5Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.
• Jer 17:18Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed; let them be dismayed, but don’t let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
• Ps 86:4Bring joy to the soul of your servant, for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul.
• 1 Pet 2:23Who, when he was cursed, didn’t curse back. When he suffered, didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;
• 1 Sam 1:15Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.
• Isa 38:14I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”
• Rev 6:10They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”
• 2 Chr 24:22Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, “May Yahweh look at it, and repay it.”
• Rev 2:23I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.
• Ps 109:6–20Set a wicked man over him. Let an adversary stand at his right hand.
• Rev 19:2–3for true and righteous are his judgments. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.”
• 1 Pet 4:19Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.
• Rev 18:20“Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her.”
• Jer 12:8My heritage has become to me as a lion in the forest. She has uttered her voice against me; therefore I have hated her.

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