Jeremiah 11:19 - Easy To Read Version

¹⁹ Before the Lord showed me that the people were against me, I was like a gentle lamb waiting to be butchered. I did not understand that they were against me. They were saying these things about me: “Let us destroy the tree and its fruit! Let us kill him! Then people will forget him.”

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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."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ And I was as a meek lamb that is carried to be a victim: and I knew not that they had devised counsels against me, saying: Let us put wood on his bread and cut him off from the land of the living, and let his name be remembered no more.

Jeremiah 11:19 Tagairtí Cros

Job 28:13

We don’t know how valuable wisdom is.\par People on earth \{can’t dig in the ground\}\par and find wisdom.\par

Psalm 109:13

Destroy my enemy completely.\par Let the next generation remove his name\par from everything.\par

Psalm 112:6

That person will never fall.\par A good person will be remembered forever.\par

Psalm 116:9

I will continue to serve the Lord\par in the land of the living.\par

Psalm 142:5

So I cry to the Lord for help.\par Lord, you are my place of safety.\par Lord, you can let me continue to live.\par

Psalm 27:13

I truly believe that I will see\par the Lord’s goodness before I die. {\cf2\super [166]} \par

Psalm 31:13

I hear the terrible things people say about me.\par Those people turned against me.\par They plan to kill me.\par

Psalm 35:15

But when I made a mistake, {\cf2\super [218]} \par those people laughed at me.\par Those people were not really friends.\par I didn’t even know them.\par But they surrounded me and attacked me.\par

Psalm 52:5

So God will ruin you forever!\par He will grab you\par and pull you from your home, {\cf2\super [313]} \par like a person pulling a plant\par out of the ground, roots and all! {\cf2\super [314]} \par

Psalm 83:4

The enemies are saying,\par “Come, let us destroy them completely.\par Then no person will ever again\par remember the name ‘Israel’.”\par

Proverbs 10:7

Good people leave good memories. But evil people will soon be forgotten.

Proverbs 24:15

Don’t be like a thief that wants to steal from a good person or take away his home.

Proverbs 7:22

And the young man followed her to the trap. He was like a bull being led to the slaughter. He was like a deer walking into a trap,

Isaiah 32:7

That foolish person uses evil like a tool. He plans ways to take everything from poor people. That foolish person tells lies about the poor people. And his lies keep the poor people from being judged fairly.

Isaiah 38:11

So I said,\par “I will not see the Lord YAH {\cf2\super [366]} in\par the land of the living again.\par I will not see the people living on earth.\par

Jeremiah 1:19

All those people will fight against you,\par but they will not defeat you.\par Why? Because I am with you,\par and I will save you.”\par This message is from the Lord.\par

Jeremiah 18:18

Then the enemies of Jeremiah said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah. Surely the teaching of the law by the priest will not be lost. And the advice from the wise men will still be with us. We will still have the words of the prophets. So let us tell lies about him. That will ruin him. We will not pay attention to anything he says.”

Jeremiah 20:10

I hear people whispering against me.\par Everywhere, I hear things that scare me.\par Even my friends are saying things\par against me.\par People are just waiting for me\par to make some mistake.\par They are saying,\par “Let us lie and say he did some bad thing.\par Maybe we can trick Jeremiah.\par Then we will have him.\par We will finally be rid of him.\par Then we will grab him\par and take our revenge on him.”\par

Jeremiah 26:8

Jeremiah finished speaking everything the Lord had commanded him to say to the people. Then the priests, the prophets, and all the people grabbed Jeremiah. They said, “You will die for saying such terrible things!

Lamentations 3:60

You have seen how my enemies\par have hurt me.\par You have seen all the evil plans\par that they made against me.\par

Ezekiel 32:24

“Elam is there and all its army is around her grave. All of them were killed in battle. Those foreigners went deep down into the ground. When they were alive, they made people afraid. But they carried their shame with them down to that deep hole.

Daniel 9:26

After the 62 weeks, {\cf2\super [112]} the chosen person will be killed. {\cf2\super [113]} He will be gone. {\cf2\super [114]} Then the people of the future leader will destroy the city and the holy place. That end will come like a flood. War will continue until the end. God has ordered that place to be completely destroyed.

Hosea 9:8

God and the prophet are like guards watching over Ephraim. {\cf2\super [90]} But there are many traps along the way. And people hate the prophet, even in the house of his God.

Numbers 1:14

from Gad’s family group—Eliasaph son of Deuel [3] ;