耶利米书 18:20

Chinese Union (Simplified)

岂 可 以 恶 报 善 呢 ？ 他 们 竟 挖 坑 要 害 我 的 性 命 ！ 求 你 记 念 我 怎 样 站 在 你 面 前 为 他 们 代 求 ， 要 使 你 的 忿 怒 向 他 们 转 消 。

Parallel Translations

Chinese NCV (Simplified)
良善的應得惡報嗎？他們竟然挖陷坑害我。求你記念我怎樣站在你面前，為他們說好話，使你的烈怒離開他們。

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

evil: 1 Samuel 24:17-19, Psalms 35:12, Psalms 38:20, Psalms 109:4, Psalms 109:5, Proverbs 17:13, John 10:32, John 15:25

digged: Jeremiah 18:22, Job 6:27, Psalms 7:15, Psalms 35:7, Psalms 57:6, Psalms 119:95, Proverbs 26:27, Ecclesiastes 10:8

Remember: Jeremiah 7:16, Jeremiah 11:14, Jeremiah 14:7-11, Jeremiah 14:20-22, Jeremiah 15:1, Genesis 18:22-32, Psalms 106:23, Ezekiel 22:30, Ezekiel 22:31, Zechariah 3:1, Zechariah 3:2

Reciprocal: Exodus 21:33 - General 1 Samuel 19:4 - spake good 1 Samuel 25:21 - he hath requited 2 Chronicles 20:11 - how they reward us Nehemiah 6:14 - think thou Job 30:25 - Did not I Psalms 7:4 - If I Psalms 94:13 - until the pit Psalms 119:85 - The proud Psalms 119:86 - they Psalms 140:5 - The proud Proverbs 29:10 - but Jeremiah 11:20 - let Jeremiah 17:16 - neither Jeremiah 27:18 - let them Jeremiah 28:6 - the Lord perform Luke 13:8 - let Romans 10:1 - my heart's 1 Thessalonians 2:10 - how Hebrews 6:10 - to forget

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Shall evil be recompensed for good?.... For all the good that I have done them, shall this be all the recompence I shall have, to be evilly treated by them, to have my good name, and even life, taken away by them? shall this be suffered to be done? and, if it is, shall it go unpunished? the prophet taxes the people with ingratitude, which he afterwards instances in, and proves:

for they have digged a pit for my soul; or "life"; they lay in wait to take it away; or they had formed a design against it, and brought a charge and accusation against him, in order to take it away, under colour of law and justice. Kimchi interprets it of poison, which they would have had him drank of:

remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, [and] to turn away thy wrath from them; he was an intercessor for them with God; pleaded with him on their behalf, that good things might be bestowed upon them, and that wrath might be averted from them; so Christ did for the Jews that crucified him, Luke 23:34; this is an instance of their ingratitude; that though he had been an advocate for them, stood in the gap between God and them, and was importunate for their good, yet this was all the recompense he had from them; they sought his life to take it away. This kindness of his for them was forgotten by them; but he trusts the Lord will remember it, and not suffer them to act the base part they intended; and now he determines no more to plead their cause, but to imprecate evils upon them, as follows:

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah had been laboring earnestly to avert the ruin of his country, but the Jews treated him as farmers do some noxious animal which wastes their fields, and for which they dig pitfalls.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 18:20. They have digged a pit for my soul. — For my life; this they wish to take away.

Stood before thee to speak good for them — I was their continual intercessor.