“But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying,“Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit,and let’s cut him off from the land of the living,that his name may be no more remembered.”
Jeremiah 11:19 (WEB)
Context Reading
17For Yahweh of Armies, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done to themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Baal. 18Yahweh gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it. Then you showed me their doings. 19But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying,“Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit,and let’s cut him off from the land of the living,that his name may be no more remembered.” 20But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously,who tests the heart and the mind,I will see your vengeance on them;for to you I have revealed my cause. 21“Therefore Yahweh says concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, ‘You shall not prophesy in Yahweh’s name, that you not die by our hand’ —