Jeremiah 20
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Jeremiah Persecuted by Pashhur
1Now #ch. 21:1; 38:1; 1 Chr. 9:12; [Ezra 2:38] Pashhur the priest, the son of #1 Chr. 24:14; Ezra 2:37 Immer, who was #[ch. 29:26]chief officer in the house of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. 2Then #[See ver. 1 above] Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet, and put him #ch. 29:26; Acts 16:24 in the stocks that were in the upper #ch. 37:13Benjamin Gate of the house of the Lord. 3The next day, when #[See ver. 1 above]Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The Lord does not call your name #[See ver. 1 above]Pashhur, but Terror on Every Side. 4For thus says the Lord: Behold, I will make you #See ch. 6:25a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They shall fall by the sword of their enemies while you look on. And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon. He shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall strike them down with the sword. 5Moreover, #[2 Kgs. 20:17]; See 2 Kgs. 24:12-16; 25:13-17 I will give all the wealth of the city, all its gains, all its #Job 28:10; Ezek. 22:25prized belongings, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hand of their enemies, who shall plunder them and seize them and carry them to Babylon. 6And you, #ch. 21:1; 38:1; 1 Chr. 9:12; [Ezra 2:38] Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house, shall go into captivity. To Babylon you shall go, and there you shall die, and there you shall be buried, you and all your friends, #See ch. 14:14to whom you have prophesied falsely.”
7O Lord, #[Ezek. 14:9] you have deceived me,
and I was deceived;
# [2 Pet. 1:21] you are stronger than I,
and you have prevailed.
#
Ps. 119:51; Lam. 3:14 I have become a laughingstock all the day;
everyone mocks me.
8For whenever I speak, I cry out,
I shout, #ch. 6:7 “Violence and destruction!”
For #ch. 6:10 the word of the Lord has become for me
#
Ps. 44:13; 79:4 a reproach and #Ps. 44:13; 79:4derision all day long.
9If I say, “I will not mention him,
or speak any more in his name,”
#
Job 32:18, 19; Ps. 39:3 there is in my heart as it were a burning fire
shut up in my bones,
and #ch. 6:11I am weary with holding it in,
and I cannot.
10 #
Ps. 31:13 For I hear many whispering.
# See ch. 6:25 Terror is on every side!
“Denounce him! #[ch. 36:16, 20] Let us denounce him!”
say all my #Ps. 41:9; 55:13; [ch. 9:4; 38:22] close friends,
# [Ps. 56:6] watching for #Ps. 35:15 my fall.
“Perhaps he will be deceived;
then #ch. 1:19; 5:22we can overcome him
and take our revenge on him.”
11But #See ch. 1:8 the Lord is with me as a dread warrior;
therefore my persecutors will stumble;
# See ch. 1:8 they will not overcome me.
# ch. 17:18; 23:40 They will be greatly shamed,
for they will not succeed.
Their #ch. 23:40eternal dishonor
will never be forgotten.
12O Lord of hosts, who tests the righteous,
# See ch. 11:20 who sees the heart and the mind,#20:12 Hebrew kidneys
let me see your vengeance upon them,
for to you have I committed my cause.
13 # [Ps. 35:9, 10; 109:30, 31] Sing to the Lord;
praise the Lord!
For he has delivered the life of the needy
from the hand of evildoers.
14 # ch. 15:10; Job 3:3 Cursed be the day
on which I was born!
The day when my mother bore me,
let it not be blessed!
15Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father,
“A son is born to you,”
# [John 16:21] making him very glad.
16Let that man be like #Gen. 19:25; Isa. 13:19 the cities
that the Lord overthrew without pity;
# ch. 18:22 let him hear a cry in the morning
and an alarm at noon,
17 # [Job 3:10, 11] because he did not kill me in the womb;
so my mother would have been my grave,
and her womb forever great.
18 # [Job 3:20] Why did I come out from the womb
# [Lam. 3:1, 2] to see toil and sorrow,
and spend my days in shame?
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Jeremiah 20
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1 And Pashhur, the son of Immer, the priest who had been appointed leader in the house of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these words.
2 And Pashhur struck the prophet Jeremiah, and he sent him to the stocks, which were at the upper gate of Benjamin at the house of the Lord.
3 And when it had become light on the next day, Pashhur led Jeremiah from the stocks. And Jeremiah said to him: "The Lord has not called your name: 'Pashhur,' but instead: 'Fear all around.' "
4 For thus says the Lord: "Behold, I will give you over to fear, you and all your friends, and they will fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes will see it. And I will give all of Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon. And he will lead them away to Babylon, and he will strike them with the sword.
5 And I will give away the entire substance of this city, and all its labor, and every precious thing. And I will give all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hands of their enemies. And they will plunder them, and take them away, and lead them into Babylon.
6 But you, Pashhur, and all the inhabitants of your house, will go into captivity. And you will go to Babylon. And there you shall die. And there you shall be buried, you and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied a lie."
7 "You have led me away, O Lord, and I have been led away. You have been stronger than I, and you have prevailed. I have become a derision all day long; everyone mocks me.
8 For I speak now as I have long spoken: crying out against iniquity and proclaiming devastation. And the word of the Lord has been made into a reproach against me and a derision, all day long.
9 Then I said: I will not call him to mind, nor will I speak any longer in his name. And my heart became like a raging fire, enclosed within my bones. And I became weary of continuing to bear it.
10 For I heard the insults of many, and terror all around: 'Persecute him!' and, 'Let us persecute him!' from all the men who had been at peace with me and who had kept watch by my side. 'If only there were some way that he might be deceived, and we might prevail against him and obtain vengeance from him!'
11 But the Lord is with me, like a strong warrior. For this reason, those who persecute me will fall, and they will be ineffective. They will be greatly confounded. For they have not understood the everlasting disgrace that will never be wiped away.
12 And you, O Lord of hosts, the Tester of the just, who sees the temperament and the heart: I beg you to let me see your vengeance upon them. For I have revealed my case to you.
13 Sing to the Lord! Praise the Lord! For he has freed the soul of the poor from the hand of the wicked.
14 Cursed is the day on which I was born! The day on which my mother gave birth to me: let it not be blessed!
15 Cursed is the man who announced it to my father, saying, 'A male child has been born to you,' causing him to rejoice with gladness.
16 Let that man be like the cities that the Lord has overthrown without regret. Let him hear an outcry in the morning, and wailing at the time of midday!
17 So let him be, who did not put me to death from the womb, so that my mother would have been my sepulcher, and her womb would have been my eternal resting place!
18 Why did I depart from the womb, so that I would see hardship and sorrow, and so that my days would be consumed by trouble?"
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