Jeremiah 15:15

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“You understand, O LORD; remember me and attend to me. Avenge me against my persecutors. In Your patience, do not take me away. Know that I endure reproach for Your honor.”

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BSBPD

“You understand, O LORD; remember me and attend to me. Avenge me against my persecutors. In Your patience, do not take me away. Know that I endure reproach for Your honor.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“O Lord, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“O Jehovah, thou knowest; remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered reproach.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Thou, Thou hast known, O Jehovah, Remember me, and inspect me, And take vengeance for me of my pursuers, In Thy long-suffering take me not away, Know--I have borne for Thee reproach.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Jeremiah 15:15 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Judges 16:28Then Samson called out to the LORD: “O Lord GOD, please remember me. Strengthen me, O God, just once more, so that with one vengeful blow I may pay back the Philistines for my two eyes.”
  2. Nehemiah 5:19Remember me favorably, O my God, for all that I have done for this people.
  3. Nehemiah 6:14O my God, remember Tobiah and Sanballat for what they have done, and also Noadiah the prophetess and the other prophets who tried to intimidate me.
  4. Nehemiah 13:22Then I instructed the Levites to purify themselves and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember me for this as well, O my God, and show me mercy according to Your abundant loving devotion.
  5. Nehemiah 13:31I also arranged for contributions of wood at the appointed times, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, with favor.
  6. Job 10:7though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
  7. Psalms 7:3O LORD my God, if I have done this, if injustice is on my hands,
  8. Psalms 17:3You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.
  9. Psalms 39:13Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
  10. Psalms 69:7For I have endured scorn for Your sake, and shame has covered my face.
  11. Psalms 69:8I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother’s sons,
  12. Psalms 102:24I say: “O my God, do not take me in the midst of my days! Your years go on through all generations.
  13. Psalms 106:4Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,
  14. Psalms 109:26Help me, O LORD my God; save me according to Your loving devotion.
  15. Psalms 119:84How many days must Your servant wait? When will You execute judgment on my persecutors?
  16. Psalms 119:132Turn to me and show me mercy, as You do to those who love Your name.
  17. Isaiah 38:3saying, “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
  18. Jeremiah 11:18And the LORD informed me, so I knew. Then You showed me their deeds.
  19. Jeremiah 11:20O LORD of Hosts, who judges righteously, who examines the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.
  20. Jeremiah 12:3But You know me, O LORD; You see me and test my heart toward You. Drag away the wicked like sheep to the slaughter and set them apart for the day of carnage.
  21. Jeremiah 15:10Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.
  22. Jeremiah 17:16But I have not run away from being Your shepherd; I have not desired the day of despair. You know that the utterance of my lips was spoken in Your presence.
  23. Jeremiah 18:23But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.
  24. Jeremiah 20:8For whenever I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and destruction. For the word of the LORD has become to me a reproach and derision all day long.

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