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19 Listen attentively to me, O Yahweh,
    and listen to the voice of my opponents.
20 Should good be repaid in place of evil?
    Yet they have dug a pit for me.
Remember my standing before you[a] to speak good for them,
    to avert your wrath from them.
21 Therefore[b] give their children to the famine,
    and hand them over to the power[c] of the sword,
and let their wives be bereaved and widows,
    and let their men be killed by death,
their young men struck dead
    by the sword in the battle.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 18:20 Literally “to the face of you”
  2. Jeremiah 18:21 Literally “To thus”
  3. Jeremiah 18:21 Literally “hand”