Jeremiah 18:23
“Yet, Lord, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.”
Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
Yet, Lord, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.
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“Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:”
“And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.”
“Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.”
“Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.”
“And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.”