Jeremiah 11:19
And I [am] as a trained lamb brought to slaughter, And I have not known That against me they have devised devices: We destroy the tree with its food, and cut him off From the land of the living, And his name is not remembered again.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
18And, O Jehovah, cause me to know, and I know, Then Thou hast showed me their doings.
Cross References
Numbers 1:14'For Gad — Eliasaph son of Deuel.
Psalms 27:13I had not believed to look on the goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living!
Psalms 35:15And — in my halting they have rejoiced, And have been gathered together, Gathered against me were the smiters, And I have not known, They have rent, and they have not ceased;
Psalms 52:5Also — God doth break thee down for ever, Taketh thee, and pulleth thee out of the tent, And He hath uprooted thee Out of the land of the living. Selah.
Psalms 109:13His posterity is for cutting off, In another generation is their name blotted out.
Psalms 116:9I walk habitually before Jehovah 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 →