The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 20:10 (NIV)

I hear many whispering, ‘Terror on every side! Denounce him! Let’s denounce him!’
All my friends are waiting for me to slip, saying,
‘Perhaps he will be deceived; then we will prevail over him and take our revenge on him.’

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 20:11 (NKJV)
But the LORD is with me as a mighty, awesome One. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and will not prevail. They will be greatly ashamed, for they will not prosper. Their everlasting confusion will never be forgotten.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 20:12 (BSB)
O LORD of Hosts, who examines the righteous, who sees the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 20:13 (NIV)

Sing to the Lord! Give praise to the Lord! He rescues the life of the needy from the hands of the wicked.

 

[willfollowsGod]

Jeremiah 20:14
New International Version (NIV 1984)

Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me not be blessed!

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 20:15 (NASB)
Cursed be the man who brought the news To my father, saying, “A boy has been born to you!” And made him very happy.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 20:16 (NKJV)
And let that man be like the cities Which the LORD overthrew, and did not relent; Let him hear the cry in the morning And the shouting at noon,

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 20:17 (CSB)

because he didn’t kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, her womb eternally pregnant.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 20:18 (CSB)

Why did I come out of the womb to see only struggle and sorrow, to end my life in shame?

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 21:1 (KJV)
The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 21:2 (NKJV)
“Please inquire of the LORD for us, for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon makes war against us. Perhaps the LORD will deal with us according to all His wonderful works, that the king may go away from us.”

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 21:3 (CSB)
But Jeremiah answered, “This is what you are to say to Zedekiah:

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 21:4 (NKJV)
‘Thus says the LORD God of Israel: “Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the walls; and I will assemble them in the midst of this city.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 21:5 (BSB)
And I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and a mighty arm, with anger, fury, and great wrath.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 21:6 (NKJV)
I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they shall die of a great pestilence.

 

[A-Sword-Cometh]

Jeremiah 21:7 (KJV)

7 And afterward, saith the Lord, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 21:8 (NKJV)
“Now you shall say to this people, ‘Thus says the LORD: “Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 21:9 (ESV)
He who stays in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, but he who goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who are besieging you shall live and shall have his life as a prize of war.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 21:10 (NKJV)
For I have set My face against this city for adversity and not for good,” says the LORD. “It shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.” ’

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 21:11 (NIV)

‘Moreover, say to the royal house of Judah, “Hear the word of the Lord.