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The passage is about Jeremiah's time and beyond. It has two different aspects to it.
Isaiah 53:7
He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
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Jeremiah 11:19
I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter; I did not realize that they had plotted against me, saying, “Let us destroy the tree and its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more.”
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Acts 8:32
This is the passage of Scripture the eunuch was reading: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
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Jeremiah is referring to himself, in that passage. It is eisegesis to simply Christianise a Tanach passage, assuming that because the same, or similar, words are found in the Christian Testament, they simply must refer to that Testament as interchangeable texts. The plotting to kill was to silence this man who was making them so uncomfortable, as the Priest and Prophet in their midst.
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