Jeremiah 11:19

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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 to follow her - as it were an ox to the slaughter, and like as it were a fool that laugheth when he goeth to the stocks to be punished -

He suffered wrong and was evil entreated, and yet opened not his mouth: he was as a sheep led to be slain: and as a lamb before his shearer, he was dumb and opened not his mouth.

And i

Then said they, "Come, let us imagine something against this Jeremiah." Yea, this did even the priests, to whom the law was committed: the Senators, that were the wisest: and the prophets, which wanted not the word of God. "Come," said they, "let us cut out his tongue, and let us not regard his words."

For why? I heard so many derisions and blasphemies, yea even of my own companions, and such as were conversant with me: which went about, to make me afraid, saying, "Upon him; let us go upon him, to fear him, and make him hold his tongue: that we may overcome him, and be avenged of him."

For I have heard the blasphemy of the multitude, and fear is on every side, while they conspire together against me, and take their counsel to take away my life.

But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: Yea, the very lame came together against me unawares, making mouths at me, and ceased not.

The ungodly watcheth the righteous, and seeketh occasion to slay him.

These are the perilous weapons of the covetous, these be his shameful counsels: that he may beguile the poor with deceitful works, yea, even there as he should give sentence with the poor.

Then assembled together the chief priests and the scribes and the elders of the people into the palace of the high priest, called Caiaphas:

Let us cut

"Come," say they, "let us root them out, that they be no more a people, and that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance."

By the reason of the affliction, he was not esteemed: and yet his generation who can number? When he is taken from the earth of living men: for my people's transgression he was plagued.

After these sixty two weeks, shall Christ be slain, and they shall have no pleasure in him. Then shall there come a people with the prince, and destroy the city and the Sanctuary: and his end shall come as the water flood. But the desolation shall continue till the end of the battle.

And when the time was come, he sent a servant to his tenants, that they should give him of the fruits of the vineyard. And the tenants did beat him: and sent him away empty.

From

Verily, no man can tell how worthy a thing she is, neither is she found in the land of the living.

I should utterly have fainted, but that I believe verily to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

Therefore shall God destroy thee forever; he shall take thee, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

I will walk before the LORD, in the land of the living.

Therefore do I cry unto thee, O LORD, and say, "Thou art my hope and my portion in the land of the living!"

That his

Let his posterity be destroyed; and in the next generation let his name be clean put out.

For he shall never be moved, and the righteous shall be had in an everlasting remembrance.

The memorial of the just shall have a good report; but the name of the ungodly shall stink.

I spake within myself, 'I shall never visit the LORD God in this life: I shall never see man among the dwellers of the world.

In Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel;

General references

"Come," say they, "let us root them out, that they be no more a people, and that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance."

Thou hast well considered how they go about to do me harm, and that all their counsels are against me.