Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 11:19

19 But I was like a lamb, or an ox that is brought unto 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 remembred .

We have no other mention of this conspiracy in Holy Writ, but it is plain both from this verse, and what followeth to the end of this Chapter, that the men of Anathoth (which was Ieremiahs own town) were offended at his Prophesying so sharp things against the land of Iudah, and had threatned to kill him if he would not leave off that stile, and had conspired to that purpose, some think to mix poison with his meat, others by starving of him, others think by beating of him, into which variety of sense they interpret that phrase in this verse. Let us destroy the Tree with the fruit thereof; but the sense is plain, Let us not onely put an end to his prophesying, but to his being also; let us cut him off some way or other that his name may no more be remembred. Of this the Prophet saith he was as ignorant, as an Ox or a Lamb that is brought to the slaughter-house, that knoweth nothing what design is against its life.

Marginal references: chap. 18.18.; Heb. The stalk with his bread.