Jeremiah 17:18 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 17:18

Let my persecutors be put to shame, but do not let me be put to shame. Let them be terrified, but do not let me be terrified. Bring upon them the day of disaster and shatter them with double destruction.

BSB

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ASV

Let them be put to shame that persecute me, but let not me be put to shame; let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed; bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

KJV

Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah (420)

(Verse 18.) Let those who pursue me be put to shame, while I am not put to shame. Let them fear, while I do not fear. Bring upon them the day of affliction, and crush them with double contrition. The Prophet curses against them, who reproach him with the word of the Lord, and say: Where is the word of the Lord? Let it come, that those who pursue him may be put to shame and may be ashamed and may return to salvation, so that they may fear the liars and not the one who predicts the truth.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Let them be confounded - They shall be confounded. These words are to be understood as simple predictions, rather than prayers.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Prayer of the prophet for deliverance from the enemies whom he excited by his faithful denunciations. Heal . . . save--not only make me whole (as to the evils of soul as well as body which I am exposed to by contact with ungodly foes, Jer 15:18), but keep me so. my praise--He whom I have to praise for past favors, and therefore to whom alone I look for the time to come.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
יֵבֹ֤שׁוּ	ye.Vo.shu	let them be put to shame	H954 →
רֹדְפַי֙	ro.de.Fai	pursuers my	H7291 →
וְאַל־	ve.'al-	and may not	H408 →
אֵבֹ֣שָׁה	'e.Vo.shah	I be put to shame	H954 →
אָ֔נִי	'A.ni	I	H589 →
יֵחַ֣תּוּ	ye.Cha.tu	let them be dismayed	H2865 →
הֵ֔מָּה	He.mah	they	H1992 →
וְאַל־	ve.'al-	and may not	H408 →
אֵחַ֖תָּה	'e.Cha.tah	I be dismayed	H2865 →
אָ֑נִי	'A.ni	I	H589 →
הָבִ֤יא	ha.Vi'	bring	H935 →
עֲלֵיהֶם֙	'a.lei.Hem	on them	H5921 →
י֣וֹם	Yom	a day of	H3117 →
רָעָ֔ה	ra.'Ah	calamity	H7451 →
וּמִשְׁנֶ֥ה	u.mish.Neh	and double	H4932 →
שִׁבָּר֖וֹן	shi.ba.Ron	destruction	H7670 →
שָׁבְרֵֽם׃ ס	sha.ve.Rem	destroy them	H7665 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 35:4
May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to shame; may those who plan to harm me be driven back and confounded.
leads to
- Psalms 35:26
  May those who gloat in my distress be ashamed and confounded; may those who exalt themselves over me be clothed in shame and reproach.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 70:2–3
  May those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded; may those who wish me harm be repelled and humiliated.
- Jeremiah 46:5
  Why am I seeing this? They are terrified, they are retreating; their warriors are defeated, they flee in haste without looking back; terror is on every side!” declares the LORD.
- Psalms 38:12
  Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.
- Psalms 31:17–18
  O LORD, let me not be ashamed, for I have called on You. Let the wicked be put to shame; let them lie silent in Sheol.
Through
Jeremiah 11:20
O LORD of Hosts, who judges righteously, who examines the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.
leads to
- Jeremiah 20:12
  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.
- Jeremiah 17:10
  I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.
- 1 Samuel 16:7
  But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the…

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About Jeremiah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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About Jeremiah