Jeremiah 11:18 - 11:23

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Men Seek Jeremiah’s Life

Moreover, Yahweh made it known to me, and I knew it;

Then You showed me their deeds.

But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter;

And I did not know that they had devised thoughts against me, saying,

“Let us make the tree with its fruit a ruin,

And let us cut him off from the land of the living,

That his name be remembered no more.”

But, O Yahweh of hosts, who judges righteously,

Who tests the insides and the heart,

Let me see Your vengeance on them,

For to You have I revealed my case.

21 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, “Do not prophesy in the name of Yahweh, so that you will not die at our hand”; 22 therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, “Behold, I am about to punish them! The choice men will die by the sword; their sons and daughters will die by famine; 23 and a remnant will not be left to them, for I will bring calamity on the men of Anathoth—the year of their punishment.”

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