Jeremiah 11:19-21

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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”—

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