Jeremiah 11:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

I was

Proverbs 7:22

Isaiah 53:7

And i

Matthew 26:3

Let us cut

From

Psalm 142:5

That his

Numbers 1:14

General references

Psalm 83:4

Lamentations 3:60

Bible References

I was

Suddenly he went after her, as an ox goes to the slaughter [not knowing the outcome],
Or as one in stocks going to the correction [to be given] to a fool,

He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He did not open His mouth [to complain or defend Himself];
Like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
And like a sheep that is silent before her shearers,
So He did not open His mouth.

And i

Then [my enemies] said, “Come and let us work out schemes against Jeremiah. Surely the law is not going to be lost to the priest [as Jeremiah predicts], nor the counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with our tongue [by making charges against him before the king], and let us ignore anything he says.”

For I have heard the whispering and defaming words of many,
“Terror on every side!
Denounce him! Let us denounce him!”
All my familiar and trusted friends,
[Those who are] watching for my fall, say,
“Perhaps he will be persuaded and deceived; then we will overcome him,
And take our revenge on him.”

For I have heard the slander and whispering of many,
Terror is on every side;
While they schemed together against me,
They plotted to take away my life.

But in my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered together [against me];
The slanderers whom I did not know gathered against me;
They slandered and reviled me without ceasing.

The wicked lies in wait for the righteous
And seeks to kill him.

As for the rogue, his weapons are evil;
He conceives wicked plans
To ruin the poor with lies,
Even when the plea of the needy one is just and right.

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the courtyard of the [elegant home of the Jewish] high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,

Let us cut

They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation;
Let the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

After oppression and judgment He was taken away;

And as for His generation [His contemporaries], who [among them] concerned himself with the fact
That He was cut off from the land of the living [by His death]
For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke [of death] was due?

Then after the sixty-two weeks [of years] the Anointed One will be cut off [and denied His Messianic kingdom] and have nothing [and no one to defend Him], and the people of the [other] prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.

At harvest time he sent a servant [as his representative] to the tenants, so that they would give him his share of the fruit of the vineyard; but the tenants beat the servant and sent him away empty-handed.

From

“Man does not know the value of it;
Nor is it found in the land of the living.

I would have despaired had I not believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord
In the land of the living.

But God will break you down forever;
He will take you away and tear you away from your tent,
And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.

I will walk [in submissive wonder] before the Lord
In the land of the living.

I cried out to You, O Lord;
I said, “You are my refuge,
My portion in the land of the living.

That his

Let his descendants be cut off,
And in the following generation let their name be blotted out.

He will never be shaken;
The righteous will be remembered forever.

The memory of the righteous [person] is a [source of] blessing,
But the name of the wicked will [be forgotten and] rot [like a corpse].

I said, “I will not see the Lord
The Lord in the land of the living;
I will no longer see man among the inhabitants of the world.

from [the tribe of] Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel;

General references

They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation;
Let the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

You have seen all their vengeance,
All their schemes against me.