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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Jeremiah 18:19

Give thou ear O Yahweh unto me, - And hearken unto the voice of mine accusers.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Jeremiah;   Persecution;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Strife;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Pottery;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Guilt;   Jeremiah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Pay attention to me, Lord.Hear what my opponents are saying!
Hebrew Names Version
Give heed to me, LORD, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.
King James Version
Give heed to me, O Lord , and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
English Standard Version
Hear me, O Lord , and listen to the voice of my adversaries.
New American Standard Bible
Give Your attention to me, LORD, And listen to what my opponents are saying!
New Century Version
Lord , listen to me. Listen to what my accusers are saying!
Amplified Bible
Pay attention to me, O LORD [and intercede]; Listen to what my adversaries are saying [and are plotting against me]—
World English Bible
Give heed to me, Yahweh, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Hearken vnto mee, O Lorde, and heare the voyce of them that contend with me.
Legacy Standard Bible
Do give heed to me, O Yahweh,And listen to the voice of those who contend against me!
Berean Standard Bible
Give heed to me, O LORD. Hear what my accusers are saying!
Contemporary English Version
Please, Lord , answer my prayer. Make my enemies stop accusing me of evil.
Complete Jewish Bible
Pay attention to me, Adonai ! Listen to what my opponents are saying!
Darby Translation
Jehovah, give heed to me, and listen to the voice of those that contend with me.
Easy-to-Read Version
Lord , listen to me! Listen to what my enemies are saying.
George Lamsa Translation
Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the cry of my oppression.
Good News Translation
So I prayed, " Lord , hear what I am saying and listen to what my enemies are saying about me.
Lexham English Bible
Listen attentively to me, O Yahweh, and listen to the voice of my opponents.
Literal Translation
O Jehovah, pay attention to me, and pay attention to the voice of my foes.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Considre me (o LORDE) and heare the voyce of myne enemies.
American Standard Version
Give heed to me, O Jehovah, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
Bible in Basic English
Give thought to me, O Lord, and give ear to the voice of those who put forward a cause against me.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
King James Version (1611)
Giue heed to me, O Lord, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Consider me O Lorde, and heare the voyce of mine enemies.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Hear me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my pleading.
English Revised Version
Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lord, yyue thou tent to me, and here thou the vois of myn aduersaries.
Update Bible Version
Give heed to me, O Yahweh, and listen to the voice of those that contend with me.
Webster's Bible Translation
Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
New English Translation
Then I said, " Lord , pay attention to me. Listen to what my enemies are saying.
New King James Version
Give heed to me, O LORD, And listen to the voice of those who contend with me!
New Living Translation
Lord , hear me and help me! Listen to what my enemies are saying.
New Life Bible
Think of me, O Lord, and listen to what those who hate me are saying!
New Revised Standard
Give heed to me, O Lord , and listen to what my adversaries say!
Douay-Rheims Bible
Give heed to me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my adversaries.
Revised Standard Version
Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to my plea.
Young's Literal Translation
Give attention, O Jehovah, unto me, And hearken to the voice of those contending with me.
THE MESSAGE
And I said to God : " God , listen to me! Just listen to what my enemies are saying. Should I get paid evil for good? That's what they're doing. They've made plans to kill me! Remember all the times I stood up for them before you, speaking up for them, trying to soften your anger? But enough! Let their children starve! Let them be massacred in battle! Let their wives be childless and widowed, their friends die and their proud young men be killed. Let cries of panic sound from their homes as you surprise them with war parties! They're all set to lynch me. The noose is practically around my neck! But you know all this, God . You know they're determined to kill me. Don't whitewash their crimes, don't overlook a single sin! Round the bunch of them up before you. Strike while the iron of your anger is hot!"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Do give heed to me, O LORD, And listen to what my opponents are saying!

Contextual Overview

18 Then said they, - Come ye and let us devise against Jeremiah devices, For the law shall not perish from the priest, Nor, counsel, from the wise, Nor, the word from the prophet: Come and let as smite him with the tongue, And let us not give ear to any of his words! 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 pat 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.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Give: Jeremiah 20:12, Psalms 55:16, Psalms 55:17, Psalms 64:1-4, Psalms 56:1-3, Psalms 109:4, Psalms 109:28, Micah 7:8, Luke 6:11, Luke 6:12

hearken: 2 Kings 19:16, Nehemiah 4:4, Nehemiah 4:5, Nehemiah 6:9

Reciprocal: Psalms 56:7 - in thine Jeremiah 17:18 - the day Romans 11:2 - how he maketh 2 Timothy 4:14 - reward

Cross-References

Genesis 18:2
And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and lo! three men, standing over against him, - so he looked and ran to meet them from the opening of the tent, and bowed himself to the earth;
Genesis 18:4
Let there be fetched, I pray thee a little water, and bathe ye your feet, - and rest yourselves under the tree.
Genesis 18:5
And let me fetch a morsel of bread, and stay ye your heart, Afterwards, ye may pass on, For on this account, have ye passed by, over against your servant. And they said, Thus, shalt thou do as thou hast spoken.
Genesis 18:6
So Abraham hastened towards the tent unto Sarah, - and said, Hasten thou three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make hearth-cakes.
Genesis 18:7
And unto the herd, ran Abraham, - and took a calf tender and good and gave unto the young man, and he hastened to make it ready.
Genesis 18:9
And they said unto him, As to Sarah thy wife… And he said Lo! she is in the tent.
Genesis 18:10
And he said, I will, surely return, unto thee at the quickening season, - and lo! a son for Sarah thy wife. Now Sarah, was hearkening at the opening of the tent, it, being behind him.
Genesis 18:19
For I have become his intimate friend, To the end that he may command his sons and his house after him, so shall they keep the way of Yahweh, by doing righteousness and justice. To the end that Yahweh may bring in for Abraham, what he hath spoken concerning him.
Genesis 18:20
So Yahweh said, The outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah, because it hath become great, - And their sin, because it hath become exceeding grievous,
Genesis 18:21
Let me go down, pray, and let me behold, whether according to their outcry which hath come in unto me, they have done altogether, And if not. I must know!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Give heed to me, O Lord,.... To his prayer, since his enemies would not give heed to his prophecies; and God does give heed to the cries and complaints of his ministers, when men will not give heed to their words and doctrines; they have a God to go to, who will hear them, when men despise them:

and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me; hear their reproaches and rantings, their blasphemies and evil speakings, their lies and falsehoods, and judge between me and them; let it appear who is in the right; vindicate my cause, and plead with them that plead against me.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The voice - i. e., the outcry and threats.


 
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