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Jeremiah 20

¹Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in the house of Jehovah, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. ²Then Pashhur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of Jehovah. ³And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, YHWH hath not called your name Pashhur, but Magor-missabib. ⁴For thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all your friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and yours eyes shall behold it; and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword. ⁵Moreover I will give all the riches of this city, and all the gains thereof, and all the precious things thereof, yea, all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies; and they shall make them a prey, and take them, and carry them to Babylon. ⁶And thou, Pashhur, and all that dwell in your house shall go into captivity; and you shall come to Babylon, and there you shall die, and there shalt you be buried, thou, and all your friends, to whom you hast prophesied falsely. ⁷O Jehovah, you hast persuaded me, and I was persuaded; you are stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocketh me. ⁸For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because the word of YHWH is made a reproach unto me, and a derision, all the day. ⁹And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heare as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot [contain]. ¹⁰For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, they that watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him. ¹¹But YHWH is with me as a mighty one [and] a terrible: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly put to shame, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten. ¹²But, O YHWH of hosts, that triest the righteous, that seest the heare and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them; for unto thee have I revealed my cause. ¹³Sing unto Jehovah, praise ye Jehovah; for he hath delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evil-doers. ¹⁴Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare 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 YHWH overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime; ¹⁷because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great. ¹⁸Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

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