Jeremiah’s enemies planned to kill him

18 Yahweh revealed to me that my enemies were planning to kill me. 19 Before he did that, I was like a lamb that was being led away to be slaughtered; I did not know what they were planning to do. I did not know that they were saying, “Let’s get rid of this tree and its fruit,” so I did not know that they intended to kill me, in order that no one would remember me [MTY].

20 Then I prayed, “Commander of the armies of angels, you judge people justly/fairly,

and you examine everything that we are thinking [DOU].

Allow me to watch you getting revenge on the people who want to kill me,

because I trust that you will do for me what is right.”

21 It was the men of my own town, Anathoth, who wanted to kill me, and they told me that they would kill me if I did not stop prophesying what Yahweh told me to say. 22 So the Commander of the armies of angels said about them, “I will punish them. Their young men will be killed in wars, and their children will die because they have no food. 23 I have set a time when I will bring disasters to the people of Anathoth, and when that happens, none of them will remain alive.”