A reading from
the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah 11:18-20
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!
The word of the Lord.
