Jeremiah 11:19 - Forerunner Commentary

Jeremiah 11:19

17 “For the Lord of hosts, ^awho planted you, has pronounced doom against you for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke Me to anger in offering incense to Baal.”

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18 Now the Lord gave me knowledge of it, and I know it; for You showed me their doings.

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

20 But, O Lord of hosts,
You who judge righteously,
^aTesting the¹ mind and the heart,
Let me see Your ^bvengeance on them,
For to You I have revealed my cause.

21 “Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the men of ^aAnathoth who seek your life, saying, ^b‘Do not prophesy in the name of the Lord, lest you die by our hand’—

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Definitions of words in Jeremiah 11:19:

Against {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Fruit {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Fruit {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

His {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Lamb {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Lamb {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Land {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Let {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Name {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

No {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
No {Hitchcock's Bible Names}
No {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Tree {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Other definition entries containing Jeremiah 11:19:

Gentleness {I.S.B.E.}
Lamb Of God {I.S.B.E.}

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