Jeremiah 11:19
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For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
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For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him.”
saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
No man can know its value, nor is it found in the land of the living.
For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side. They conspire against me and plot to take my life.
Still I am certain to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
from Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel;
I said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.
I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap,