TSK · Jeremiah 18:22

All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, [saying], "Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers."

Yet hear the word of Yahweh, you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation.

For 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 shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

Thus says Yahweh: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall become an overflowing stream, and shall overflow the land and all that is therein, the city and those who dwell therein; and the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.

In that day, says Yahweh, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.

Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.