Jeremiah 11:17-19
1599 Geneva Bible
17 For the Lord of hosts that planted thee, hath pronounced a plague against thee, for the wickedness of the house of Israel, and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal,
18 And the Lord hath taught me, and I know it, even then thou showedst me [a]their practices.
19 But I was like a lamb, or a bullock, that is brought to the slaughter, and I knew not that they had devised thus against me, saying, Let us [b]destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and cut him out of the land of the living, that his name may be no more in memory,
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- Jeremiah 11:18 Which went about privily to conspire my death.
- Jeremiah 11:19 Let us destroy the Prophet and his doctrine. Some read, Let us corrupt his meat with wood, meaning, poison.
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