Jeremiah 11:19
But I was like a lambe, or a bullocke, that is brought to the slaughter, and I knewe not that they had deuised thus against me, saying, Let vs destroy the tree with the fruite thereof, and cut him out of the lande of the liuing, that his name may be no more in memory.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
18And the Lord hath taught me, and I knowe it, euen then thou shewedst mee their practises.
Cross References
Numbers 1:14Of Gad, Eliasaph, the sonne of Deuel:
Psalms 27:13I should haue fainted, except I had beleeued to see the goodnes of the Lord in the land of the liuing.
Psalms 35:15But in mine aduersitie they reioyced, and gathered them selues together: the abiects assembled themselues against me, and knewe not: they tare me and ceased not,
Psalms 52:5So shall God destroy thee for euer: he shall take thee and plucke thee out of thy tabernacle, and roote thee out of ye land of the liuing. Selah.
Psalms 109:13Let his posteritie be destroied, and in the generation following let their name be put out.
Psalms 116:9I shall walke before the Lord in the lande of the liuing.
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 →