20Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer and chief officer in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.H6583H1121H564H3548H6496H5057H1004H3068H8085H3414H5012H16972So Pashhur had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put him in the stocks at the Upper Benjamin Gate in the LORD's temple.H6583H5221H3414H5030H5414H4115H5945H8179H1144H1004H30683The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, "The LORD does not call you Pashhur, but Magor-missabib,H4283H6583H3318H3414H4115H559H3414H3068H7121H8034H6583H40364for 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.H559H3068H5414H4032H157H5307H2719H341H5869H7200H5414H3063H3027H4428H894H1540H894H5221H27195I 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.H5414H2633H5892H3018H3366H214H4428H3063H5414H3027H341H962H3947H935H8946As 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 that you prophesied falsely to.'"H6583H3427H1004H3212H7628H935H894H4191H6912H157H5012H8267
Jeremiah Compelled to Preach
7You deceived me, LORD, and I was deceived. You seized me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all the time; everyone ridicules me.H3068H6601H6601H2388H3201H7814H3117H39328For whenever I speak, I cry out— I proclaim: Violence and destruction! because the word of the LORD has become for me constant disgrace and derision.H1767H1696H2199H7121H2555H7701H1697H3068H2781H7047H31179If I say: I won't mention Him or speak any longer in His name, 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.H559H2142H1696H8034H3820H1197H784H6113H6106H3811H3557H320110For I have heard the gossip of the multitudes, "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."H8085H1681H7227H4032H5439H5046H5046H582H7965H8104H6763H6761H6601H3201H3947H536011But the LORD is with me like a violent warrior. 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.H3068H1368H6184H7291H3782H3201H3966H954H7919H5769H3639H791112LORD of Hosts, testing the righteous and seeing the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance on them, for I have presented my case to You.H3068H6635H974H6662H7200H3629H3820H7200H5360H1540H737913Sing to the LORD! Praise the LORD, for He rescues the life of the needy from the hand of evil people.H7891H3068H1984H3068H5337H5315H34H3027H7489
Jeremiah’s Lament
14Cursed be the day on which I was born. The day my mother bore me— let it never be blessed.H779H3117H3205H3117H517H3205H128815Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father, saying, "A male child is born to you," bringing him great joy.H779H376H1319H1H559H2145H1121H3205H8055H805516Let that man be like the cities the LORD overthrew without compassion. Let him hear an outcry in the morning and a war cry at noontimeH376H5892H3068H2015H5162H8085H2201H1242H8643H6256H667217because he didn't kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, her womb eternally pregnant.H4191H7358H517H6913H7358H5769H203018Why did I come out of the womb to see [only] struggle and sorrow, to end my life in shame?H3318H7358H7200H5999H3015H3117H3615H1322