Jeremiah 18:19-23

Rotherham(i) 19 Give thou ear, O Yahweh unto me,––And hearken unto the voice of mine accusers. 20 Shall, evil, be recompensed, for, good? For they have digged a pit for my life,––Remember how I stood before thee, To speak, in their behalf, what was good! To turn back thine indignation from them. 21 Therefore, give thou up their sons, to the famine, And deliver them into the hands of the sword, And let their, wives, become, childless and widows, And let, their men, be slain by death, Their young men, be smitten by the sword in battle. 22 Let there be heard a cry out of their houses, When thou shalt bring in upon them a troop, suddenly,––Because they digged a pit to capture me, And, snares, did they hide for my feet. 23 But, thou, O Yahweh, knowest all their counsels against me, to put me to death, Put thou no propitiatory–covering over their iniquity, And, their sin, from before thee, do not thou blot out,––But let them be overthrown before thee, In the time of thine anger, deal thou effectively with them.