Jeremiah 11:19
But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. And I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit of it. And let us cut him off from the land of the living, that hi
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18And LORD gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it. Then thou showed me their doings.
Cross References
Numbers 1:14Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
Psalms 27:13I believe that I shall see the goodness of LORD in the land of the living.
Psalms 35:15But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The wretches gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not. They tore me, and ceased not.
Psalms 52:5God will likewise destroy thee forever. He will take thee up, and pluck thee out of thy tent, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
Psalms 109:13Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Psalms 116:9I will walk before LORD in the land of the living.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 11:19-23
Conspiracy against Jeremiah; Destruction of the Men of Anathoth. ( b. c. 606.) 18 And the Lord hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou showedst me their doings. 19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered. 20 But, O Lord of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the… Read the whole commentary →