Jeremiah Chapter 20 Back Next{20:1} Now Pashhur, the son of
Immer the priest, who was chief officer in the house of Yahweh, heard
Jeremiah prophesying these things.
{20:2} Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper
gate of
Benjamin, which was in the house of Yahweh.
{20:3} It happened on the next day, that Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but
Magormissabib.
{20:4} For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself, and to all your friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall see it; and I will give all
Judah into the hand of the king of
Babylon, and he shall carry them
captive to Babylon, and shall kill them with the sword.
{20:5} Moreover I will give all the riches of this city, and all its gains, and all the precious things of it, yes, all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies; and they shall make them a prey, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.
{20:6} You, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house shall go into
captivity; and you shall come to Babylon, and there you shall die, and there you shall be buried, you, and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely.
{20:7} Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded; you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocks me.
{20:8} For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because the word of Yahweh is made a reproach to me, and a derision, all the day.
{20:9} If I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my
heart as it were a burning
fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I can't.
{20:10} For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall; perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
{20:11} But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten.
{20:12} But, Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause.
{20:13} Sing to Yahweh, praise Yahweh; for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers.
{20:14} Cursed is the day in which I was born: don't let the day in which my mother bore me be
blessed.
{20:15} Cursed is the man who brought news to my
father, saying, A boy is born to you; making him very glad.
{20:16} Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn't repent: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;
{20:17} because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my
grave, and her womb always great.
{20:18} Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
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