| 20 | Jeremiah | ||
| 1 | Now Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer, who was chief officer in the house of Yahweh, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. | Jeremiah's conflict with Pashhur the priest. Jr.20.1-6 | |
| 2 | Then Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper Benjamin Gate of the house of Yahweh. | ||
| 3 | On the morrow, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, "Yahweh does not call your name Pashhur, but Terror on every side. | ||
| 4 | For thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will make you a 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 slay them with the sword. | ||
| 5 | Moreover, I will give all the wealth of the city, all its gains, all its prized 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. | ||
| 6 | And you, 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, to whom you have prophesied falsely." | ||
| 7 | O Yahweh, you have deceived me, and I was deceived; you are stronger than I, and you have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all the day; every one mocks me. | Jeremiah complains to the LORD. Jr.20.7-18 | |
| 8 | For whenever I speak, I cry out, I shout, "Violence and destruction!" For the word of Yahweh has become for me a reproach and derision all day long. | ||
| 9 | If I say, "I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name," there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot. | ||
| 10 | For I hear many whispering. Terror is on every side! "Denounce him! Let us denounce him!" say all my familiar friends, watching for my fall. "Perhaps he will be deceived, then we can overcome him, and take our revenge on him." | ||
| 11 | But Yahweh is with me as a dread warrior; therefore my persecutors will stumble, they will not overcome me. They will be greatly shamed, for they will not succeed. Their eternal dishonour will never be forgotten. | ||
| 12 | O Yahweh of hosts, who tries the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause. | ||
| 13 | Sing to Yahweh; praise Yahweh! For he has delivered the life of the needy from the hand of evildoers. | ||
| 14 | Cursed be the day on which I was born! The day when my mother bore me, let it not be blessed! | ||
| 15 | Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father, "A son is born to you," making him very glad. | ||
| 16 | Let that man be like the cities which Yahweh overthrew without pity; let him hear a cry in the morning and an alarm at noon, | ||
| 17 | because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb for ever great. | ||
| 18 | Why did I come forth from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in shame? | ||
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