Jeremiah 18:22 “Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring raiders a…”

Jeremiah 18:22

Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring raiders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

World English Bible

Let a cry be heard from their houses when you bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hidden snares for my feet.

American Standard Version

Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them; for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

Geneva Bible 1599

Let the crye bee heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring an hoste suddenly vpon them: for they haue digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feete.

Darby Translation

Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them; for they have digged a pit to take me, and have hidden snares for my feet.

Young's Literal Translation

A cry is heard from their houses, For Thou bringest against them suddenly a troop, For they dug a pit to capture me, And snares they have hidden for my feet.

Bible in Basic English

Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly.

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Cross references

“a cry”

Jeremiah 6:26 Jeremiah 25:34–36 Isaiah 10:30 Zephaniah 1:16 Jeremiah 4:31 Jeremiah 48:3–5

Jeremiah 6:26 · BSB

O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

Jeremiah 25:34–36 · BSB

Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. For the days of your slaughter have come; you will fall and be shattered like fine pottery.

Isaiah 10:30 · BSB

Cry aloud, O Daughter of Gallim! Listen, O Laishah! O wretched Anathoth!

Zephaniah 1:16 · BSB

a day of horn blast and battle cry against the fortified cities, and against the high corner towers.

Jeremiah 4:31 · BSB

For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child— the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the mu…

Jeremiah 48:3–5 · BSB

A voice cries out from Horonaim: ‘Devastation and great destruction!’

“and hid”

Psalm 140:5 Psalm 56:5–7 Jeremiah 20:10 Psalm 38:12 Matthew 22:15 Psalm 64:4

Psalm 140:5 · BSB

The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah

Psalm 56:5–7 · BSB

All day long they twist my words; all their thoughts are on my demise.

Jeremiah 20:10 · BSB

For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our ve…

Psalm 38:12 · BSB

Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.

Matthew 22:15 · BSB

Then the Pharisees went out and conspired to trap Jesus in His words.

Psalm 64:4 · BSB

ambushing the innocent in seclusion, shooting suddenly, without fear.

Also

Jeremiah 18:20

Jeremiah 18:20 · BSB

Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

21Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

23But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.

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