Yermeyah (Jeremiah) 20:1–6 — Yirmiyah’s conflict with Pashhur

OET-RV by section YIR 20:1

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20:1 Yirmiyah’s conflict with Pashhur

Southern kingdom

20 The priest, Pashhur (Imer’s son) who was a supervisor, heard Yirmiyah (Jeremiah) prophesying those words at Yahweh’s house, 2 and he struck the prophet Yirmiyah. Then he placed him in the stocks that were at the upper gate of Benyamin hear Yahweh’s house. 3 The next day, when Pashhur released Yirmiyah from the stocks, Yirmiyah said to him, “Yahweh won’t call you ‘Pashhur’, but ‘Magor -Misaviv’ (which means ‘surrounded by terror’), 4 because Yahweh says this: Listen, I’ll make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They’ll fall by their enemies’ swords before your very eyes, and then I’ll hand Yehudah (Judah) over to the Babylonian king, and he’ll carry them away to Bavel (Babylon) and put them to death. 5 I’ll give away all the wealth of this city—all its products and valuables, and all the treasures of Yehudah’s kings—to their enemies. They’ll plunder it, seize it, and carry it off to Bavel. 6 Then you, Pashhur will be taken into captivity along with all the others in your home. You’ll be taken to Bavel, and you’ll die there and be buried—you and all your friends who you’ve prophesied these lies to.