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Jer 20:7 — O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

deceived		or, enticed. Jer 1:6-8,18,19; Jer 15:18; Jer 17:16; Exd 5:22,23; Num 11:11-15
thou art		Jer 20:9; Eze 3:14; Mic 3:8; 1Cr 9:6
I am		Jer 15:10; Jer 29:26; 2Ki 2:23; Psa 22:6,7; Psa 35:15,16; Psa 69:9-12; Lam 3:14; Hsa 9:7; Luk 16:14; Luk 22:63,64; Luk 23:11,35,36; Act 17:18,32; 1Cr 4:9-13; Hbr 11:36

Correlating Passages

deceived

	Jer 1:6	Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I [am] a child.
	Jer 1:7	But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I [am] a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
	Jer 1:8	Be not afraid of their faces: for I [am] with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
	Jer 1:18	For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.
	Jer 1:19	And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I [am] with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.
	Jer 15:18	Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, [which] refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, [and as] waters [that] fail?
	Jer 17:16	As for me, I have not hastened from [being] a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was [right] before thee.
	Exd 5:22	And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou [so] evil entreated this people? why [is] it [that] thou hast sent me?
	Exd 5:23	For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.
	Num 11:11	And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?
	Num 11:12	Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?
	Num 11:13	Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
	Num 11:14	I am not able to bear all this people alone, because [it is] too heavy for me.
	Num 11:15	And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

thou art

	Jer 20:9	Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But [his word] was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not [stay].
	Eze 3:14	So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.
	Mic 3:8	But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
	1Cr 9:6	Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?

I am

	Jer 15:10	Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; [yet] every one of them doth curse me.
	Jer 29:26	The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man [that is] mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.
	2Ki 2:23	And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
	Psa 22:6	But I [am] a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
	Psa 22:7	All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying],
	Psa 35:15	But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: [yea], the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; they did tear [me], and ceased not:
	Psa 35:16	With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
	Psa 69:9	For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
	Psa 69:10	When I wept, [and chastened] my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
	Psa 69:11	I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
	Psa 69:12	They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I [was] the song of the drunkards.
	Lam 3:14	I was a derision to all my people; [and] their song all the day.
	Hsa 9:7	The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know [it]: the prophet [is] a fool, the spiritual man [is] mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
	Luk 16:14	And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
	Luk 22:63	And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote [him].
	Luk 22:64	And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee?
	Luk 23:11	And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked [him], and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.
	Luk 23:35	And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided [him], saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.
	Luk 23:36	And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,
	Act 17:18	Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
	Act 17:32	And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this [matter].
	1Cr 4:9	For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
	1Cr 4:10	We [are] fools for Christ's sake, but ye [are] wise in Christ; we [are] weak, but ye [are] strong; ye [are] honourable, but we [are] despised.
	1Cr 4:11	Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
	1Cr 4:12	And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
	1Cr 4:13	Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, [and are] the offscouring of all things unto this day.
	Hbr 11:36	And others had trial of [cruel] mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

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Scott, Thomas. "Jeremiah 20:7," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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