Jeremiah 11:19 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

like. lamb. See App-85.

saying. Note the Figure of speech. Ellipsis (App-6), as frequently with this verb. See notes on Psa_109::5. Psalms 109:6; Psalms 144:12, &c.

the tree with the fruit thereof. Hebrew "the dish in his food". Figure of speech Hypallage (App-6), for the food in his dish.

from the land of the living. Jeremiah. type of Christ. See Isaiah 53:8 and App-85.

Jeremiah 11:19

19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the treee with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.