Jeremiah 11:18-19

New Living Translation

A Plot against Jeremiah

¹⁸Then the Lord told me about the plots my enemies were making against me. ¹⁹I was like a lamb being led to the slaughter. I had no idea that they were planning to kill me! “Let’s destroy this man and all his words,” they said. “Let’s cut him down, so his name will be forgotten forever.”

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Jeremiah 11:18-19

New International Version

Plot Against Jeremiah

¹⁸Because the Lord revealed their plot to me, I knew it, for at that time he showed me what they were doing. ¹⁹I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter;^(A) I did not realize that they had plotted^(B) against me, saying,

“Let us destroy the tree and its fruit;
let us cut him off from the land of the living,^(C)
that his name be remembered^(D) no more.”

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