Then he said to David, "You are right, and I am wrong. You have been so good to me, while I have done such wrong to you!

How often does someone catch an enemy and then let him get away unharmed? The LORD bless you for what you have done to me today!

They pay me back evil for good, and I sink in despair.

Those who pay back evil for good are against me because I try to do right.

They oppose me, even though I love them and have prayed for them.

They pay me back evil for good and hatred for love.

If you repay good with evil, you will never get evil out of your house.

Jesus said to them, "I have done many good deeds in your presence which the Father gave me to do; for which one of these do you want to stone me?"

This, however, was bound to happen so that what is written in their Law may come true: 'They hated me for no reason at all.'

Send a mob to plunder their homes without warning; make them cry out in terror. They have dug a pit for me to fall in and have set traps to catch me.

You would even roll dice for orphan slaves and make yourselves rich off your closest friends!

But in the traps they set for others, they themselves get caught.

Without any reason they laid a trap for me and dug a deep hole to catch me.

My enemies have spread a net to catch me; I am overcome with distress. They dug a pit in my path, but fell into it themselves.

The wicked are waiting to kill me, but I will meditate on your laws.

People who set traps for others get caught themselves. People who start landslides get crushed.

If you dig a pit, you fall in it; if you break through a wall, a snake bites you.

The LORD said, "Jeremiah, do not pray for these people. Do not cry or pray on their behalf; do not plead with me, for I will not listen to you.

Jeremiah, don't pray to me or plead with me on behalf of these people. When they are in trouble and call to me for help, I will not listen to them."

My people cry out to me, 'Even though our sins accuse us, help us, LORD, as you have promised. We have turned away from you many times; we have sinned against you.

Why are you like someone taken by surprise, like a soldier powerless to help? Surely, LORD, you are with us! We are your people; do not abandon us.' "

The LORD said to me, "Do not ask me to help these people.

We have sinned against you, LORD; we confess our own sins and the sins of our ancestors.

None of the idols of the nations can send rain; the sky by itself cannot make showers fall. We have put our hope in you, O LORD our God, because you are the one who does these things.

Then the LORD said to me, "Even if Moses and Samuel were standing here pleading with me, I would not show these people any mercy. Make them go away; make them get out of my sight.

Then the two men left and went on toward Sodom, but the LORD remained with Abraham.

If there are fifty innocent people in the city, will you destroy the whole city? Won't you spare it in order to save the fifty?

The LORD answered, "If I find fifty innocent people in Sodom, I will spare the whole city for their sake."

But perhaps there will be only forty-five innocent people instead of fifty. Will you destroy the whole city because there are five too few?" The LORD answered, "I will not destroy the city if I find forty-five innocent people."

Abraham said, "Please don't be angry, Lord, but I must speak again. What if there are only thirty?" He said, "I will not do it if I find thirty."

Abraham said, "Please don't be angry, Lord, and I will speak only once more. What if only ten are found?" He said, "I will not destroy it if there are ten."

When God said that he would destroy his people, his chosen servant, Moses, stood up against God and kept his anger from destroying them.

I looked for someone who could build a wall, who could stand in the places where the walls have crumbled and defend the land when my anger is about to destroy it, but I could find no one.

So I will turn my anger loose on them, and like a fire I will destroy them for what they have done." The Sovereign LORD has spoken.

In another vision the LORD showed me the High Priest Joshua standing before the angel of the LORD. And there beside Joshua stood Satan, ready to bring an accusation against him.

The angel of the LORD said to Satan, "May the LORD condemn you, Satan! May the LORD, who loves Jerusalem, condemn you. This man is like a stick snatched from the fire."