19. Yet I was like a trusting lamb led to slaughter, not knowing that they were hatching plots against me: “Let us destroy the tree in its vigor; let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will no longer be remembered.”
20. But, you, Lord of hosts, just Judge,searcher of mind and heart,Let me witness the vengeance you take on them,for to you I have entrusted my cause!
21. Therefore, thus says the Lord concerning the men of Anathoth who seek your life and say, “Do not prophesy in the name of the Lord; otherwise you shall die by our hand.”
22. Therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: I am going to punish them. The young men shall die by the sword; their sons and daughters shall die by famine.
23. None shall be spared among them, for I will bring disaster upon the men of Anathoth, the year of their punishment.