¹⁸ Adonai made this known to me, and then I knew —
you showed me what they were doing.
¹⁹ But I was like a tame lamb
led to be slaughtered;
I did not know that they were plotting
schemes against me —
“Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit,
we’ll cut him off from the land of the living,
so that his name will be forgotten.”