18 Then they said, “Come, let us make plots ^eagainst Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor ^fthe word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.”

7 For the ^xlips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people¹ should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—