Jeremiah 18:20-22

Lexham English Bible

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.
²² Let a cry for help be heard from their houses
    when you suddenly bring upon them the raiding band,
for they have dug a pit to catch me,
    and they have fixed secretly a trap for my feet.