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Meet God in Jeremiah 18:20

“Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.”

Jeremiah 18:20 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Jeremiah 18:20, and Living Bread opens it right there.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • Psalms 35:7For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
  • Psalms 57:6They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Sel…
  • Psalms 106:23Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy …
  • Psalms 35:12They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
  • 1 Samuel 24:17And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.
  • Psalms 109:4For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
  • Proverbs 26:27Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
  • Psalms 119:95The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.
  • Jeremiah 18:22Let 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 f…
  • Ecclesiastes 10:8He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
  • Genesis 18:22And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.
  • Proverbs 17:13Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

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