18-19. Some people plotted to kill me.And like a lambbeing led to the butcher,I knew nothingabout their plans.But then the Lord told methat they had plannedto chop me down like a tree—fruit and all—so that no one would everremember me again.
20. I prayed, “Lord All-Powerful,you always do what is right,and you know every thought.So I trust you to help meand to take revenge.”
21. Then the Lord said:Jeremiah, some men from Anathoth say they will kill you, if you keep on speaking for me.
22. But I will punish them. Their young men will die in battle, and their children will starve to death.
23. And when I have finished, no one from their families will be left alive.