Jeremiah 18:19-21

Expanded Bible

¹⁹ Lord, ·listen [pay attention] to me.
    Listen to what my ·accusers [adversaries] are saying!
²⁰ ·Good should not [^LShould good…?] be paid back with evil,
    but they have dug a pit ·in order to kill me [^Lfor my life].
Remember that I stood before you
    and asked you to do good things for these people
    and to turn your anger away from them.
²¹ So now, ·let their children starve [^Lgive their children to starvation],
    and ·let their enemies kill them with swords [^Lgive them over to the power of the sword].
Let their wives ·lose their children and husbands [^Lbe childless and widows].
    Let the men [^Cfrom Judah] be ·put to death [slain by pestilence]
    and the young men be killed with swords in battle.