Jeremiah 20
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Jeremiah Beaten by Pashhur
1Pashhur the priest,#1Ch 9:12; Jr 21:1; 38:1 the son of Immer#1Ch 24:14; Ezr 2:37–38 and chief official in the temple of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. 2So Pashhur had the prophet Jeremiah beaten and put him in the stocks#Jb 13:27; Jr 29:26; Ac 16:24 at the Upper Benjamin Gate#Jr 37:13; 38:7; Zch 14:10 in the Lord’s temple. 3The 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,#20:3 = Magor-missabib 4for this is what the Lord says, ‘I am about to make you a terror to both yourself and those you love.#Jr 6:25; 20:10; 46:5 They will fall by the sword of their enemies before your very eyes.#2Sm 12:11; Is 1:7; Jr 16:9; 29:21; 39:16; 51:24 I will hand Judah over to the king of Babylon, and he will deport them to Babylon and put them to the sword. 5I will give away all the wealth#Pr 15:6 of this city, all its products#Dt 28:33; Ezk 23:29 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.#2Kg 20:17; 21:14; Lm 2:7 6As for you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house, you will go into captivity. You will go to Babylon.#Jr 34:3; Mc 4:10 There you will die, and there you will be buried, you and all your friends to whom you prophesied lies.’”#Jr 5:31; 14:13–14; 23:25–26,32; 27:10,14–16; 29:9,21,31
Jeremiah Compelled to Preach
7You deceived#1Kg 20:20–22; 2Ch 18:20; Jr 15:18 me, Lord, and I was deceived.
You seized me and prevailed.
I am a laughingstock all the time;#Gn 38:23; Jb 12:4; Ps 44:14; Jr 48:26–27,39; Lm 2:15–17; 3:14
everyone ridicules me.
8For whenever I speak, I cry out,
I proclaim, “Violence and destruction!” #Jr 6:7
so the word of the Lord has become my
constant disgrace and derision.
9I say, “I won’t mention him
or speak any longer in his name.”#Ex 5:23; Dt 18:20; Ac 5:40
But his message becomes a fire burning in my heart,#Jb 32:18–20; Ps 39:3
shut up in my bones.
I become tired of holding it in,#Jr 6:11; Am 3:8; 1Co 9:16
and I cannot prevail.
10For I have heard the gossip of many people,
“Terror is on every side!#Jr 6:25; 20:3; 46:5; 49:29
Report him; let’s report him!”
Everyone I trusted#20:10 Lit Every man of my peace watches for my fall.#Ps 35:15; 41:9; 56:6
“Perhaps he will be deceived
so that we might prevail against him
and take our vengeance on him.”
11But the Lord is with me like a violent warrior.#Ex 15:3
Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and not prevail.
Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly shamed,
an everlasting humiliation that will never be forgotten.#Mc 3:7
12 Lord of Armies, testing the righteous
and seeing the heart#20:12 Lit kidneys and mind,
let me see your vengeance on them,
for I have presented my case to you.#Jr 11:20
13Sing to the Lord!
Praise the Lord,
for he rescues the life of the needy
from evil people.
Jeremiah’s Lament
14May the day I was born
be cursed.#Jb 3:3
May the day my mother bore me
never be blessed.
15May the man be cursed
who brought the news to my father, saying,
“A male child is born to you,”
bringing him great joy.
16Let that man be like the cities
the Lord demolished without compassion.#Gn 19:25
Let him hear an outcry in the morning#Jr 18:22
and a war cry at noontime
17because he didn’t kill me in the womb#Jb 3:10–11
so that my mother might have been my grave,
her womb eternally pregnant.
18Why did I come out of the womb
to see only struggle and sorrow,#Jb 3:20; Lm 3:1
to end my life in shame?
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Jeremiah 20
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Jeremiah 20
1¶ And Pashur the priest, the son of Immer, who presided as prince in the house of the Lord, heard Jeremiah who prophesied these things.
2Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were at the gate of Benjamin on the high place, which is in the house of the Lord.
3And it came to pass on the morrow that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said unto him: The Lord has not called thy name Pashur, {Heb. Prosperity all around} but Magormissabib. {Heb. Fear from every side}
4For thus hath the Lord said, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself and to all those that love thee well; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it; and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall smite them with the sword.
5Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city and all its labours and all its precious things and all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give into the hand of their enemies, who shall spoil them and take them and carry them to Babylon.
6And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity; and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die and shalt be buried there, thou and all those who love thee well, unto whom thou hast prophesied with lies.
7¶ O Lord, thou hast seduced me, and I was seduced; thou wert stronger than I and hast overcome me; I am in derision daily; every one mocks me.
8For since I spoke out, I raised my voice crying, Violence and destruction; because the word of the Lord has been a reproach unto me and a derision, daily.
9And I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But he was in my heart as a burning fire and within my bones; I tried to forbear, and I could not.
10For I heard the murmuring of many, fear on every side, Report, and we will report it. All my friends watched to see if I would stumble. Peradventure he will deceive himself, they said, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
11But the Lord is with me as a powerful giant; therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper; they shall have everlasting confusion which shall never be forgotten.
12O Lord of the hosts, who examines that which is just, who seest the kidneys and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee I have opened my cause.
13Sing unto the Lord, praise ye the Lord; for he has delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
14¶ Cursed be the day in which I was born; do not let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
15Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
16And let that man be as the cities which the Lord overthrew and did not repent; and let him hear the cry in the morning and the shouting at noontide
17because he did not slay me in the womb, and my mother would have been my grave, and her womb perpetual conception.
18Why did I come forth out of the womb? To see labour and sorrow that my days should be consumed with shame?
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