Jeremiah 11:19
But I was like a docile lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me: '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.'
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
18And the LORD gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it; then Thou showedst me their doings.
Cross References
Numbers 1:14Of Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
Psalms 27:13If I had not believed to look upon the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living! —
Psalms 35:15But when I halt they rejoice, and gather themselves together; the abjects gather themselves together against me, and those whom I know not; they tear me, and cease not;
Psalms 52:5(52-7) God will likewise break thee for ever, 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 shall walk before the LORD in the lands 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 →