Jeremiah 11:19
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 tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
Jeremiah 11:19 stands among the prophecies of Jeremiah 3 to 21, whose meaning is clear in awful denunciation of sin, in sorrow over transgression, in touching appeals to return to God, and in the painful lack of response from the mass of the people. It is part of the prophecy that Israel broke and did not continue in the covenant God made with them when He brought them out of Egypt, forfeiting its blessings so that He regarded them not. The surrounding announcement predicts the breaking off of branches from the good olive tree, which represents Israel and the family of Abraham as adopted by God. The first covenant was made with that people at the departure out of Egypt, and the new covenant is made with the same people at the time of Christ's ministry and death. By the new covenant those who were broken off can be grafted in again, and the Gentiles with them by becoming members of the commonwealth of Israel, so that at the close of probation the tree will stand complete representing the twelve tribes of the Israel of God.