Jeremiah 11:18 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Jeremiah 11:18

16 The Lord called your name,
^aGreen Olive Tree, Lovely and of Good Fruit.
With the noise of a great tumult
He has kindled fire on it,
And its branches are broken.

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’—

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Jeremiah here digresses to notice the attempt on his life plotted by his townsmen of Anathoth. He had no suspicion of it, until Jehovah revealed it to him (Jeremiah 12:6).

the Lord . . . thou—The change of person from the third to the second accords with the excited feelings of the prophet.

then—when I was in peril of my life.

their doings—those of the men of Anathoth. His thus alluding to them, before he has mentioned their name, is due to his excitement.

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