Jeremiah 11:19-21
1599 Geneva Bible
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 [a]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,
20 But O Lord of hosts, that judgest righteously, and triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy [b]vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.
21 The Lord therefore speaketh thus of the men of [c]Anathoth, (that seek thy life, and say, [d]Prophesy not in the name of the Lord, that thou die not by our hands.)
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- Jeremiah 11:19 Let us destroy the Prophet and his doctrine. Some read, Let us corrupt his meat with wood, meaning, poison.
- Jeremiah 11:20 Thus he spake, not for hatred, but being moved with the Spirit of God, he desireth the advancement of God’s glory, and the verifying of his word, which is by the destruction of his enemies.
- Jeremiah 11:21 To wit, both the Priests and the rest of the people: for this town was the Priests, and they dwelt in it, read Jer. 1:1.
- Jeremiah 11:21 Not that they could not abide to hear God named: (for herein they would show themselves most holy) but because they could not abide to be sharply reproved, and therefore desired to be flattered, Isa. 30:10, and to be maintained in their pleasures, Mic. 2:11, and not to hear vice condemned, Amos 7:12.
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