For, lo, the wicked bend the bow, They make ready their arrow upon the string, That they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart;
If the foundations be destroyed, What can the righteous do?
When he speaketh fair, believe him not; For there are seven abominations in his heart:
Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.
But I was like a gentle lamb that is led 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.
Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Thou shalt not prophesy in the name of Jehovah, that thou die not by our hand;
But he denied, saying, I neither know, nor understand what thou sayest: and he went out into the porch; and the cock crew.