Jeremiah 11:19

New Living Translation

I was like a lamb being led to the slaughter. I had no idea that they were planning to kill me! “Let’s destroy this man and all his words,” they said. “Let’s cut him down, so his name will be forgotten forever.”

Cross References

Job 28:13

No one knows where to find it, for it is not found among the living.

Psalm 109:13

May all his offspring die. May his family name be blotted out in the next generation.

Psalm 112:6

Such people will not be overcome by evil. Those who are righteous will be long remembered.

Psalm 116:9

And so I walk in the Lord’s presence as I live here on earth!

Psalm 142:5

Then I pray to you, O Lord. I say, “You are my place of refuge. You are all I really want in life.

Psalm 27:13

Yet I am confident I will see the Lord’s goodness while I am here in the land of the living.

Psalm 31:13

I have heard the many rumors about me, and I am surrounded by terror. My enemies conspire against me, plotting to take my life.

Psalm 35:15

But they are glad now that I am in trouble; they gleefully join together against me. I am attacked by people I don’t even know; they slander me constantly.

Psalm 52:5

But God will strike you down once and for all. He will pull you from your home and uproot you from the land of the living. Interlude

Psalm 83:4

“Come,” they say, “let us wipe out Israel as a nation. We will destroy the very memory of its existence.”

Proverbs 10:7

We have happy memories of the godly, but the name of a wicked person rots away.

Proverbs 24:15

Don’t wait in ambush at the home of the godly, and don’t raid the house where the godly live.

Proverbs 7:22

He followed her at once, like an ox going to the slaughter. He was like a stag caught in a trap,

Isaiah 32:7

The smooth tricks of scoundrels are evil. They plot crooked schemes. They lie to convict the poor, even when the cause of the poor is just.

Isaiah 38:11

I said, “Never again will I see the Lord God while still in the land of the living. Never again will I see my friends or be with those who live in this world.

Jeremiah 1:19

They will fight you, but they will fail. For I am with you, and I will take care of you. I, the Lord, have spoken!”

Jeremiah 18:18

Then the people said, “Come on, let’s plot a way to stop Jeremiah. We have plenty of priests and wise men and prophets. We don’t need him to teach the word and give us advice and prophecies. Let’s spread rumors about him and ignore what he says.”

Jeremiah 20:10

I have heard the many rumors about me. They call me “The Man Who Lives in Terror.” They threaten, “If you say anything, we will report it.” Even my old friends are watching me, waiting for a fatal slip. “He will trap himself,” they say, “and then we will get our revenge on him.”

Jeremiah 26:8

But when Jeremiah had finished his message, saying everything the Lord had told him to say, the priests and prophets and all the people at the Temple mobbed him. “Kill him!” they shouted.

Lamentations 3:60

You have seen the vengeful plots my enemies have laid against me.

Ezekiel 32:24

“Elam lies there surrounded by the graves of all its hordes, those who were slaughtered by the sword. They struck terror in the hearts of people everywhere, but now they have descended as outcasts to the world below. Now they lie in the pit and share the shame of those who have gone before them.

Daniel 9:26

“After this period of sixty-two sets of seven, the Anointed One will be killed, appearing to have accomplished nothing, and a ruler will arise whose armies will destroy the city and the Temple. The end will come with a flood, and war and its miseries are decreed from that time to the very end.

Hosea 9:8

The prophet is a watchman over Israel for my God, yet traps are laid for him wherever he goes. He faces hostility even in the house of God.

Numbers 1:14

Gad Eliasaph son of Deuel