Text: Jeremiah 11:19
OT Text Referred to: Isaiah 53:7
Subject: lamb to slaughter
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme
Anchor Text: Isa 52:13-53:12 — The Suffering Servant
Significance: Both Jeremiah 11:19 and Isaiah 53:7 use the simile of a lamb (כֶּבֶשׂ, keves / שֶׂה, seh) led to slaughter to depict innocent suffering at the hands of hostile enemies. Jeremiah describes his own experience — unaware of the plots against him by the men of Anathoth, he was "like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter." Isaiah 53:7 applies the same image to the Suffering Servant who "did not open His mouth." The verbal and conceptual echo suggests that Jeremiah's prophetic suffering became a paradigm that Isaiah develops into a portrait of vicarious, atoning suffering. Where Jeremiah is an unwitting victim, Isaiah's Servant willingly and silently submits, deepening the motif from personal persecution to redemptive self-offering.
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Text: Isaiah 53:7
OT Text Referred to: Jeremiah 11:19
Subject: lamb to slaughter
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme
Anchor Text: Isa 52:13-53:12 — The Suffering Servant
Significance: Isaiah 53:7 describes the Servant as "like a lamb (כַּשֶּׂה, kasseh) led to the slaughter" who "did not open his mouth," and Jeremiah 11:19 uses strikingly similar language: "I was like a gentle lamb (כְּכֶבֶשׂ, kekeves) led to the slaughter." Both texts describe an innocent figure suffering silently at the hands of his enemies, using the same slaughter imagery (טֶבַח, tevach). Jeremiah speaks autobiographically of his own persecution by the men of Anathoth, making him a living illustration of the innocent sufferer pattern that Isaiah's Servant will embody in its fullest expression. The lamb-to-slaughter image bridges the personal experience of the prophet Jeremiah with the theological portrait of the vicarious Servant in Isaiah 53.