In an instant he goes after her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool goes to correction in fetters;

He has been oppressed, and He was afflicted; yet He opens not His mouth. He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter; and as a sheep before its shearers is mute, so He opens not His mouth.

Then they said, Come and let us devise schemes against Jeremiah. For the Law shall not perish from the priest, nor wisdom from the wise, nor the Word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.

For I have heard the whisperings of many, terror is all around. Proclaim, they say, and we will report it. Everyone at peace with me is watching for me to stumble and fall, saying, Perhaps he will be lured away, and we shall prevail against him, and shall take our revenge on him.

For I have heard the slander of many; fear is on every side; while they take counsel together against me, they have plotted to take away my life.

But at my stumbling they gathered themselves together and rejoiced; and before I knew it the attackers gathered themselves against me; they tore at me and were not still;

The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.

Jehovah will not abandon him in his hand, nor allow him to be found guilty when he is judged.

Also the implements of the scoundrel are evil; he devises wicked plans to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks justice.

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

and plotted to take Jesus by trickery and kill Him.

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

He was taken from prison and from judgment; and who shall declare His generation? For He was cut off out of the land of the living; for the transgression of My people He was stricken.

And after sixty two weeks, Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself. And the people of a coming ruler shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end shall be with a flood, and desolations are determined, and there shall be war until the end.

Now at the right time he sent a servant to the vinedressers, that they might give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the vinedressers beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

And again he sent a third; and they wounded him also and cast him out.

But when the vinedressers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, so that the inheritance may become ours.

Man does not know its value, nor is it found in the land of the living.

I would have fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living.

The Mighty God will likewise destroy you forever; He will take you away, and pluck you out of your tent, and has rooted you out of the land of the living. Selah.

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

I cried out unto You, O Jehovah: I said, You are my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.

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

Surely he shall never be shaken; the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.

The memory of the just is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot.

I said, I shall not see YAH, Jehovah, in the land of the living; I shall look on man no more among the inhabitants of the world.

from Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel;