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Jeremiah 17:18
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Jeremiah 17:18
18Let 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.
18*†*Let them bee confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring vpon them the day of euill, and destroy them with double destruction.
- Heb. break them with a double breach.
- Psal.35.4 and 40.15.
- Cha.11.20
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DEFINED WORDS
Jeremiah 17:18
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
confounded
Confused, perplexed, mixed in disorder, dismayed, or put to shame.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Trouble, afflict, or pursue after; to pursue, harass, or oppress.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604 · Skeat 1893
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Disheartened; deprived of courage.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The period of light between morning and evening; a complete daily cycle; or a specified time, age, or season, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To ruin, demolish, kill, consume, or bring to an end.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Twice as much or twofold; also to fold or turn over upon itself.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
destruction
Ruin, overthrow, death, wasting, or the calamity and loss produced by destroying.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study4Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
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Open the full verse study14Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
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Open the full verse study2O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.
3Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.
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Open the full verse study17Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:
18That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
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Open the full verse study20But, O Lord of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
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Open the full verse study11But the Lord is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
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Open the full verse study8Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
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Open the full verse study18And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
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Open the full verse study16As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee.
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Open the full verse study19Give heed to me, O Lord, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
20Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
22Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
23Yet, Lord, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.
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Open the full verse study2Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
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Open the full verse study1IN thee, O Lord, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.
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Open the full verse study6Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
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Open the full verse study14He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
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Open the full verse study17¶ Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.
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Open the full verse study26Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
27Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the Lord be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
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