But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought 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.
But I was like a lamb or ox going to be killed; I didn't know they planned tricks against me. They said, "Let's get rid of the tree with its fruit and cut him off from the land of the living so that his name is forgotten.