“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.”
The death threat: 'I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter; I did not realize that they had plotted 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 be remembered no more."' This verse presents the plot explicitly: the conspirators plan to 'destroy the tree with its fruit,' 'cut him off from the land of the living,' and eliminate his memory. The metaphor of a 'gentle lamb led to the slaughter' indicates Jeremiah's innocence and vulnerability. Theologically, this verse indicates that Jeremiah faces a death plot from the very people to whom he is prophesying.
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