The plot

18 I knew – for Jehovah had told me,

And revealed to me what they were doing:

19 But I – like an innocent lamb

That is led to the slaughter was I.

Yea, all unconscious was I

Of the plots they were plotting against me–

To ruin the tree with its sap,

From the land of the living to root me

And banish my name out of mind.

20 But Jehovah of Hosts, Thou righteous Judge,

Who mind and heart dost prove,

Let me see Thy vengeance upon them,

For on Thee have I rolled my cause.

21 Therefore, thus saith Jehovah concerning the men of

Anathoth who seek thy life and threaten thee with

death at their hands, if thou preach in the name of

Jehovah:

22 Therefore saith Jehovah of Hosts,

Behold I will visit them sternly;

Their young men shall die by the sword,

Their sons and their daughters shall perish with hunger.

23 Not one of them shall be left;

For over the men of Anathoth

Calamity I will bring

In the year of their visitation.