Jeremiah 11:19
But I was like a sheep 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 its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may not be remembered any more.”
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
18And the Lord hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then didst thou let me see their doings.
Cross References
Numbers 1:14Of Gad: Elyassaph the son of Deuel.
Psalms 27:13Unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of life—
Psalms 35:15But in my downfall they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; there gathered themselves together against me abject wretches, whom I knew not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
Psalms 52:5(52:7) [Therefore] God will also destroy thee for ever: he will take thee away, and pluck thee out of his tent, and root thee out of the land of life. Selah.—
Psalms 109:13Let his posterity be cut off: in another generation let their name be blotted out.
Psalms 116:9I will walk before the Lord in the land of life.
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 →