Summary: Jeremiah, unaware of the plot against him, learns of the conspiracy through the LORD. He compares himself to a lamb led to slaughter and appeals to God, the righteous judge, to witness the retribution on his plotters, entrusting his cause to divine justice.
I knew their plot because the LORD informed me; at that time you, O LORD, showed me their doings.
Yet I, like a trusting lamb led to slaughter, had not realized 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 be spoken no more.”
But, you, O LORD of hosts, O just Judge, searcher of mind and heart, Let me witness the vengeance you take on them, for to you I have entrusted my cause!