Jeremiah 11:19 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁹ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ But I was like a tame lamb that is brought to the slaughter; I did not know that they had devised inventions and schemes against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ 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.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ I was like a young lamb led to the slaughter; I didn’t realize that they were planning their schemes against me: “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit; let’s cut him off from the land of the living so that even any knowledge of him will be wiped out.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ And I was like a meek lamb, who is being carried to be a victim. And I did not realize that they had devised plans against me, saying: "Let us place wood upon his bread, and let us eradicate him from the land of the living, and let his name no longer be remembered."

Jeremiah 11:19 Cross References

Jeremiah 20:10

For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, say all my familiar friends, they that watch for my halting; peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

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.

Psalm 83:4

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; That the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

Psalm 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.

Job 28:13

Man knoweth not the price thereof; Neither is it found in the land of the living

Psalm 27:13

I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD In the land of the living.

Numbers 1:14

Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

Isaiah 38:11

I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

Isaiah 32:7

The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the meek with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

Proverbs 10:7

The memory of the just is blessed: But the name of the wicked shall rot.

Proverbs 7:22

He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or as fetters to the correction of the fool;

Psalm 116:9

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

Psalm 109:13

Let his posterity be cut off; In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Daniel 9:26

And after the threescore and two weeks shall the anointed one be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and his end shall be with a flood, and even unto the end shall be war; desolations are determined.

Psalm 142:5

I cried unto thee, O LORD; I said, Thou art my refuge, My portion in the land of the living.

Psalm 112:6

For he shall never be moved; The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance.

Psalm 52:5

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

Psalm 35:15

But when I halted they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: The abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; They did tear me, and ceased not:

Jeremiah 26:8

And it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold on him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.

Lamentations 3:60

Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.

Ezekiel 32:24

There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.

Proverbs 24:15

Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous; Spoil not his resting place:

Jeremiah 1:19

And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.

Hosea 9:8

Ephraim was a watchman with my God: as for the prophet, a fowler's snare is in all his ways, and enmity in the house of his God.