New Revised Standard Version
Is evil a recompense for good? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

Contemporary English Version
I tried to help them, but they are paying me back by digging a pit to trap me. I even begged you not to punish them.

New American Bible
Must good be repaid with evil that they should dig a pit to take my life? Remember that I stood before you to speak on their behalf, to turn your wrath away from them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy sight, to speak good for them, and to turn away thy indignation from them.

Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy sight, to speak good for them, and to turn away thy indignation from them.

evil.

1 Samuel 24:17-19 And he said to David: Thou art more just than I: for thou hast done good to me, and I have rewarded thee with evil. . . .

Psalm 35:12 They repaid me evil for good: to the depriving me of my soul.

Psalm 38:20 They that render evil for good, have detracted me, because I followed goodness.

Psalm 109:4,5 Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer. . . .

Proverbs 17:13 He that rendereth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

John 10:32 Jesus answered them: Many good works I have shewed you from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?

John 15:25 But that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law: they hated me without cause.

digged.

Jeremiah 18:22 Let a cry be heard out of their houses: for thou shalt bring the robber upon them suddenly: because they have digged a pit to take me, and have hid snares for my feet.

Job 6:27 You rush in upon the fatherless, and you endeavour to overthrow your friend.

Psalm 7:15 He hath opened a pit and dug it: and he is fallen into the hole he made.

Psalm 35:7 For without cause they have hidden their net for me unto destruction: without cause they have upbraided my soul.

Psalm 57:6 They prepared a snare for my feet; and they bowed down my soul. They dug a pit before my face, and they are fallen into it.

Psalm 119:95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I have understood thy testimonies.

Proverbs 26:27 He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that rolleth a stone, it shall return to him.

Ecclesiastes 10:8 He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

remember.

Jeremiah 7:16 Therefore do not thou pray for this people, nor take to thee praise and supplication for them: and do not withstand me: for I will not hear thee.

Jeremiah 11:14 Therefore do not thou pray for this people, and do not take up praise and prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time of their cry to me, in the time of their affliction.

Jeremiah 14:7-11,20-22 If our iniquities have testified against us, O Lord, do thou it for thy name's sake, for our rebellions are many, we have sinned against thee. . . .

Jeremiah 15:1 And the Lord said to me: If Moses and Samuel shall stand before me, my soul is not towards this people: cast them out from my sight, and let them go forth.

Genesis 18:22-32 And they turned themselves from thence, and went their way to Sodom: but Abraham as yet stood before the Lord. . . .

Psalm 106:23 And he said that he would destroy them: had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach: To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

Ezekiel 22:30,31 And I sought among them for a man that might set up a hedge, and stand in the gap before me in favour of the land, that I might not destroy it: and I found none. . . .

Zechariah 3:1,2 And the Lord shewed me Jesus the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord: and Satan stood on his right hand to be his adversary. . . .