For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, {say they}, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, {saying}, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him. {All...: Heb. Every man of my peace}

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from {being} a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words. {with...: or, for the tongue}

For I have heard the slander of many: fear {was} on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.

The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel. {Deuel: also called, Reuel}

{I had fainted}, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent {him} away empty.

He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; {straightway: Heb. suddenly}

The memory of the just {is} blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

The instruments also of the churl {are} evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right. {the needy...: or, he speaketh against the poor in judgment}

I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.

I said, I shall not see the LORD, {even} the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

Let his posterity be cut off; {and} in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.

Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou {art} my refuge {and} my portion in the land of the living.

And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof {shall be} with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. {but...: or, and shall have nothing} {desolations...: or, it shall be cut off by desolations}

God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of {thy} dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah. {destroy...: Heb. beat thee down}

But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: {yea}, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew {it} not; they did tear {me}, and ceased not: {adversity: Heb. halting}

The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:

{I had fainted}, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I {am} with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.

Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from {being} a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. {under a curse: or, with an oath of execration}

As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words. {with...: or, for the tongue}

For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee. {they have called...: or, they cried after thee fully} {fair...: Heb. good things}

Thou hast seen all their vengeance {and} all their imaginations against me.

And they watched {him}, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.

Thine habitation {is} in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.

For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against {them that are} quiet in the land.

Lay not wait, O wicked {man}, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:

And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.

For I have heard the slander of many: fear {was} on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

And the LORD hath given me knowledge {of it}, and I know {it}: then thou shewedst me their doings.

And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, {even} the year of their visitation.

But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter. {toward...: Heb. with thee}

Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.

Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded {him} to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.

Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living. {terror: or, dismaying}

Gilead {is} a city of them that work iniquity, {and is} polluted with blood. {polluted: or, cunning for}

Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;