Jeremiah 11:18,19

The Lord hath given me knowledge— It is generally agreed by the commentators, that Jeremiah here speaks of his own sufferings as figurative of those of the Messiah. All the churches agree, says St. Jerome, that these words and the following respect Jesus Christ and his passion. It was against his life that they formed their designs: he was the true lamb, meek and innocent; he it was who was fastened to the cross. Jeremiah is here a figure of the divine Saviour; he here suffers for his brethren, and represents in his person that divine original, who was a man of grief, and tried by all sorts of affliction. The Vulgate, Bochart, and Houbigant, read the first clause of the 19th verse, But I was like a gentle lamb, which is led to the slaughter, &c. Instead of, Let us destroy the tree, &c. Houbigant reads, and nearly in agreement with the Vulgate, Let us infect his food with poisoned wood. "Let us put some deadly and poisonous wood into what he eats."