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17 The Lord of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have done, provoking me to anger by making offerings to Baal.

Jeremiah’s Life Threatened

18 It was the Lord who made it known to me, and I knew;
    then you showed me their evil deeds.
19 But I was like a gentle lamb
    led to the slaughter.
And I did not know it was against me
    that they devised schemes, saying,
‘Let us destroy the tree with its fruit,
    let us cut him off from the land of the living,
    so that his name will no longer be remembered!’

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17 The Lord Almighty, who planted(A) you, has decreed disaster(B) for you, because the people of both Israel and Judah have done evil and aroused(C) my anger by burning incense to Baal.(D)

Plot Against Jeremiah

18 Because the Lord revealed their plot to me, I knew it, for at that time he showed me what they were doing. 19 I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter;(E) I did not realize that they had plotted(F) against me, saying,

“Let us destroy the tree and its fruit;
    let us cut him off from the land of the living,(G)
    that his name be remembered(H) no more.”

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