ULT JER Chapter 20

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20 Now Pashhur son of Immer the priest—he was chief officer in the house of Yahweh—heard Jeremiah prophesying these words. 2 And Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were at the Upper Gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of Yahweh. 3 And it happened on the next day that Pashhur brought Jeremiah out from the stocks. And Jeremiah said to him, “Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but rather Magor-Missabib.

4 For thus says Yahweh: ‘Behold, I am making you as a terror to yourself and to all your lovers, and they will fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes will be seeing. And I will give all of Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will exile them to Babylon, and he will strike them with the sword. 5 And I will give all the wealth of this city and all its produce and all its precious things, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give into the hand of their enemies, and they will plunder them and take them and bring them to Babylon. 6 And you, Pashhur, and all the dwellers of your house will go into captivity. And to Babylon you will go, and there you will die, and there you will be buried, you and all your lovers to whom you prophesied in falsehood.’ ”

7 You persuaded me, Yahweh, and I was persuaded.

You overpowered me, and you prevailed.

I have become a laughingstock all the day;

everyone is mocking me.

8 For as often as I speak, I cry out, I call out,

“Violence and destruction!”

For the word of Yahweh has become for me

a reproach and a derision all the day.

9 And I said, “I will not remember him,

and I will not speak again in his name.”

But it was in my heart like a burning fire,

shut up in my bones;

and I was weary of containing it,

and I was not able.

10 For I have heard the whispering of many:

“Terror on every side!

Report him! Let us report him!”

Every man of my peace,

the watchers of my stumbling:

“Perhaps he will be deceived,

then we will prevail against him

and we will take our vengeance on him.”

11 But Yahweh is with me like a ruthless mighty warrior;

therefore my pursuers will stumble and will not prevail.

They will be greatly ashamed, for they have not succeeded;

everlasting humiliation will not be forgotten.

12 And Yahweh of Armies, the one testing the righteous,

seeing the kidneys and the heart—

let me see your vengeance on them,

for to you I have made known my cause.

13 Sing to Yahweh!

Praise Yahweh!

For he has rescued the life of the needy one

from the hand of evildoers.

14 Cursed be the day on which I was born;

the day that my mother bore me,

let it not be blessed.

15 Cursed be the man who brought news to my father, saying,

“A male child has been born to you,”

making glad, he made him glad.

16 And let that man be like the cities

that Yahweh overthrew and did not relent.

And let him hear an outcry in the morning

and a shout at the time of noon,

17 because he did not put me to death from the womb,

so that my mother would have been my grave

and her womb pregnant forever.

18 Why is this, that from the womb I came out

to see trouble and sorrow,

and my days come to an end in shame.