⁵ My enemies speak maliciously about me:
“When will he die and be forgotten?” ^(A)

¹⁹ for I was like a docile^[a] lamb led to slaughter.^(A)
I didn’t know that they had devised plots against me:
“Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit;^[b]
let’s cut him off from the land of the living^(B)
so that his name will no longer be remembered.”