Jeremiah 20
20NOW PASHHUR son of Immer, the priest, who was [also] chief officer in the house of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.H6583H1121H564H3548H6496H5057H1004H3068H8085H3414H5012H16972Then Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were at the upper Benjamin Gate by the house of the Lord.H6583H5221H3414H5030H5414H4115H5945H8179H1144H1004H30683And the next day Pashhur brought Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, The Lord does not call your name Pashhur, but Magor-missabib [terror on every side].H4283H6583H3318H3414H4115H559H3414H3068H7121H8034H6583H40364For thus says the Lord: Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends; they will 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 will carry them captive to Babylon and will slay them with the sword.H559H3068H5414H4032H157H5307H2719H341H5869H7200H5414H3063H3027H4428H894H1540H894H5221H27195Moreover, I will deliver all the riches of this city--all the results of its labors, all its precious things, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah--into the hand of their enemies, who will make them a prey {and} plunder them and seize them and carry them to Babylon.H5414H2633H5892H3018H3366H214H4428H3063H5414H3027H341H962H3947H935H8946And you, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house shall go into captivity; you shall go to Babylon, and there you shall die and be buried, you and all your friends to whom you have prophesied falsely.H6583H3427H1004H3212H7628H935H894H4191H6912H157H5012H82677[But Jeremiah said] O Lord, You have persuaded {and} deceived me, and I was persuaded {and} deceived; You are stronger than I am and You have prevailed. I am a laughingstock all the day; everyone mocks me.H3068H6601H6601H2388H3201H7814H3117H39328For whenever I speak, I must cry out {and} complain; I shout, Violence and destruction! For the word of the Lord has become to me a reproach and a derision {and} has brought me insult all day long.H1767H1696H2199H7121H2555H7701H1697H3068H2781H7047H31179If I say, I will not make mention of [the Lord] or speak any more in His name, in my mind {and} heart it is as if there were a burning fire shut up in my bones. And I am weary of enduring {and} holding it in; I cannot [contain it any longer].H559H2142H1696H8034H3820H1197H784H6113H6106H3811H3557H320110For I have heard many whispering {and} defaming, [There is] terror on every side! Denounce him! Let us denounce him! Say all my familiar friends, they who watch for my fall, Perhaps he will be persuaded {and} deceived; then we will prevail against him, and we will get our revenge on him.H8085H1681H7227H4032H5439H5046H5046H582H7965H8104H6763H6761H6601H3201H3947H536011But the Lord is with me as a mighty {and} terrible One; therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they will not overcome [me]. They will be utterly put to shame, for they will not deal wisely {or} prosper [in their schemes]; their eternal dishonor will never be forgotten.H3068H1368H6184H7291H3782H3201H3966H954H7919H5769H3639H791112But, O Lord of hosts, You Who try the righteous, Who see the heart and the mind, let me see Your vengeance on them, for to You have I revealed {and} committed my cause.H3068H6635H974H6662H7200H3629H3820H7200H5360H1540H737913Sing to the Lord! Praise the Lord! For He has delivered the life of the poor {and} needy from the hands of evildoers.H7891H3068H1984H3068H5337H5315H34H3027H748914Cursed be the day on which I was born! Let not the day on which my mother bore me be blessed!H779H3117H3205H3117H517H3205H128815Cursed be the man who brought the tidings to my father, saying, A son is born to you!--making him very glad.H779H376H1319H1H559H2145H1121H3205H8055H805516And let that man be like the cities which the Lord overthrew, and did not relent. Let him hear the [war] cry in the morning and the shouting of alarm at noon,H376H5892H3068H2015H5162H8085H2201H1242H8643H6256H667217Because he did not slay me in the womb, so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb always great.H4191H7358H517H6913H7358H5769H203018Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame?H3318H7358H7200H5999H3015H3117H3615H1322
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