Devine Scripture

Jeremiah 11:19

Jeremiah chapter 11 · verse 19 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

Context

v.18And Jehovah gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it: then thou showedst me their doings.

v.19This passage

v.20But, O Jehovah of hosts, who judgest righteously, who triest the heart and the mind, I shall see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 52:5

    God will likewise destroy thee for ever; He will take thee up, and pluck thee out of thy tent, And root thee out of the land of the living. [Selah

  • Psalms 116:9

    I will walk before Jehovah In the land of the living.

  • Jeremiah 18:18

    Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

  • Psalms 31:13

    For I have heard the defaming of many, Terror on every side: While they took counsel together against me, They devised to take away my life.

  • Psalms 37:32

    The wicked watcheth the righteous, And seeketh to slay him.

  • Matthew 26:3

    Then were gathered together the chief priests, and the elders of the people, unto the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas;