Jeremiah 20:10 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 20:10

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 vengeance upon him.”

BSB

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ASV

For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, say all my familiar friends, they that watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

KJV

For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

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Commentary

3 voices

Origen of Alexandria

HOMILIES ON JEREMIAH 20 (253)

"And it became in my heart as a burning fire, blazing in my bones, and I am utterly enfeebled and cannot bear it, because I heard the blame of many gathered round about." The blameless, the blessed Jeremiah (I speak with exception of this small sin and if he committed any other slight thing) was blamed by many. But the blame from the many was for him a commendation with God. For those who blamed him said, "Conspire, and let us all conspire against him, all the men his friends; watch his design, and he will be deceived."

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Here is an account of the temptation he was in under this affliction; his feet were almost gone, as the psalmist's, Ps. lxxiii. And this is that which is most to be dreaded in affliction, being driven by it to sin, Neh. vi.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

GESENIUS not so well translates, according to Arabic idiom, "those guarding my side" (that is, my most intimate friends always at my side), in apposition to "familiars," and the subject of "say" (instead of "saying"). The Hebrew means properly "side," then "halting," as the halt bend on one side. enticed--to commit some sin.

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּ֣י	ki	for	H3588 →
שָׁמַ֜עְתִּי	sha.Ma'.ti	I have heard	H8085 →
דִּבַּ֣ת	di.Bat	[the] whispering of	H1681 →
רַבִּים֮	ra.Bim	many [people]	H7227 →
מָג֣וֹר	ma.Gor	terror	H4032 →
מִסָּבִיב֒	mi.sa.Viv	[is] from round about	H5439 →
הַגִּ֙ידוּ֙	ha.Gi.du	tell	H5046 →
וְנַגִּידֶ֔נּוּ	ve.na.gi.De.nu	and let us tell about him	H5046 →
כֹּ֚ל	kol	every	H3605 →
אֱנ֣וֹשׁ	'e.No.osh	<the> person of	H582 →
שְׁלוֹמִ֔י	she.lo.Mi	peace my	H7965 →
שֹׁמְרֵ֖י	sho.me.Rei	[are] [the] watchers of	H8104 →
צַלְעִ֑י	tzal.'I	stumbling my	H6761 →
אוּלַ֤י	'u.Lai	perhaps	H194 →
יְפֻתֶּה֙	ye.fu.Teh	he will be deceived	H6601 →
וְנ֣וּכְלָה	ve.Nu.khe.lah	and we will prevail	H3201 →
ל֔וֹ	lo	to <the> him
וְנִקְחָ֥ה	ve.nik.Chah	and we will take	H3947 →
נִקְמָתֵ֖נוּ	nik.ma.Te.nu	vengeance our	H5360 →
מִמֶּֽנּוּ׃	mi.Me.nu	from him	H4480 →

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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 41:9
Even my close friend whom I trusted, the one who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.
leads to
- John 13:18
  I am not speaking about all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the Scripture: ‘The one who shares My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.’
- Psalms 55:12–14
  For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide.
- Matthew 26:23
  Jesus answered, “The one who has dipped his hand into the bowl with Me will betray Me.
- Psalms 55:20–22
  My companion attacks his friends; he violates his covenant.
- John 13:26–27
  Jesus answered, “It is the one to whom I give this morsel after I have dipped it.” Then He dipped the morsel and gave it to Judas son of Simon Iscariot.
Through
Jeremiah 18:18
Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us…
leads to
- Psalms 52:2
  Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
- Jeremiah 11:19
  For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from…
- Malachi 2:7
  For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the LORD of Hosts.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Jeremiah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Jeremiah