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# I was like a gentle lamb being led to the slaughter
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This speaks of Jeremiah being unaware of his enemies' plans to kill him by comparing him to a lamb who is being led to be slaughtered.
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# being led to the slaughter
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"that my enemies were leading to a butcher"
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# Let us destroy the tree with its fruit
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Jeremiah's enemies speak of killing him as if he were a fruit tree that they were planning to destroy.
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# Let us cut him off from the land of the living
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"Let us kill him so he is no longer in the land of those who are alive"
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# his name will be no longer remembered
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"people will no longer remember his name"