Jeremiah 20:1-10

Pashhur the priest,  the son of Immer  and chief official in the temple of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. So Pashhur had the prophet Jeremiah beaten and put him in the stocks  at the Upper Benjamin Gate  in the LORD’s temple. The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD does not call you Pashhur, but Terror Is on Every Side,  for this is what the LORD says, ‘I am about to make you a terror to both yourself and those you love.  They will fall by the sword of their enemies before your very eyes.  I will hand Judah over to the king of Babylon, and he will deport them to Babylon and put them to the sword. I will give away all the wealth  of this city, all its products  and valuables. Indeed, I will hand all the treasures of the kings of Judah over to their enemies. They will plunder them, seize them, and carry them off to Babylon.  As for you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house, you will go into captivity. You will go to Babylon.  There you will die, and there you will be buried, you and all your friends to whom you prophesied lies.’ ”  You deceived  me, LORD, and I was deceived. You seized me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all the time;  everyone ridicules me. For whenever I speak, I cry out, I proclaim, “Violence and destruction! ”  so the word of the  LORD has become my constant disgrace and derision. I say, “I won’t mention him or speak any longer in his name.”  But his message becomes a fire burning in my heart,  shut up in my bones. I become tired of holding it in,  and I cannot prevail. For I have heard the gossip of many people, “Terror is on every side!  Report him; let’s report him! ” Everyone I trusted  watches for my fall.  “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we might prevail against him and take our vengeance on him.”