Jeremiah 20:10

WEB

¹⁰For I have heard the defaming of many: “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

KJV

¹⁰¶ For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

BSB

¹⁰For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him.”

FBV

¹⁰I've heard many people gossiping: “He's the one who says, ‘Terror is everywhere!’ He has to be reported! Report what he's doing!”^[+] All my good friends are waiting for me to slip up. “Maybe he'll make a mistake so we can defeat him and get our revenge on him,” they say.

Extra References

Psalms 41:9

⁹Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

Psalms 31:13

¹³For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

Isaiah 29:21

²¹who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for one who reproves in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

Jeremiah 18:18

¹⁸Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

Acts 24:13

¹³Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.

Psalms 64:2-4

²Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil; ³who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words, ⁴to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

Ezekiel 22:9

⁹Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.

Psalms 55:13-14

¹³But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend. ¹⁴We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God’s house with company.

Jeremiah 6:25

²⁵Don’t go out into the field or walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror are on every side.

Proverbs 10:18

¹⁸He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.