Jeremiah 18:20-22

Modern English Version

²⁰ Shall evil be recompensed for good?
    For they have dug a pit for my soul.
Remember that I stood before You
    to speak good for them,
    and to turn away Your wrath from them.
²¹ Therefore, deliver up their children to the famine
    and pour out their blood by the power of the sword;
and let their wives be bereaved of their children and become widows
    and let their men be put to death;
    let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
²² Let a cry be heard from their houses,
    when You bring a troop suddenly upon them;
for they have dug a pit to take me
    and hidden snares for my feet.