18 Then they said, (A)“Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, (B)for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. (C)Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.”

19 Hear me, O Lord,
    and (D)listen to the voice of my adversaries.
20 (E)Should good be repaid with evil?
    Yet (F)they have dug a pit for my life.
(G)Remember how I stood before you
    to speak good for them,
    to turn away your wrath from them.

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