Jeremiah 11:18-23

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.”
²⁰But you, Lord Almighty, who judge righteously^(E)
    and test the heart^(F) and mind,^(G)
let me see your vengeance^(H) on them,
    for to you I have committed my cause.

²¹Therefore this is what the Lord says about the people of Anathoth^(I) who are threatening to kill you,^(J) saying, “Do not prophesy^(K) in the name of the Lord or you will die^(L) by our hands”— ²²therefore this is what the Lord Almighty says: “I will punish them. Their young men^(M) will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine. ²³Not even a remnant^(N) will be left to them, because I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.^(O)”