Jeremiah 11:18-23
Men Seek Jeremiah’s Life
18Moreover, Yahweh amade it known to me, and I knew it;Then You showed me their deeds.19But I was like a gentle alamb led to the slaughter;And I did not know that they had bdevised thoughts against me, saying,“Let us make the tree with its 1fruit a ruin,And clet us cut him off from the dland of the living,That his ename be remembered no more.”20But, O Yahweh of hosts, who ajudges righteously,Who btests the 1insides and the heart,Let me see Your vengeance on them,For to You have I revealed my case.21Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the men of aAnathoth, who bseek your life, saying, “cDo not prophesy in the name of Yahweh, so that you will not ddie at our hand”; 22therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, “Behold, I am about to apunish them! The bchoice men will die by the sword; their sons and daughters will die by famine; 23and a remnant awill not be left to them, for I will bbring calamity on the men of Anathoth—cthe year of their punishment.”