Jeremiah 11:17-19

Modern English Version

¹⁷ For the Lord of Hosts, who planted you, has pronounced disaster against you, because of the evil 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 to Baal.

Jeremiah’s Life Threatened

¹⁸ The Lord has made it known to me and I knew it; then You showed me their deeds. ¹⁹ But I was like a gentle lamb that is brought to the slaughter, and I did not know that they had devised plots against me, saying,