JER-20:1  Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who [was] also

chief

governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah

prophesied these

things.

JER-20:2  Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in

the stocks

that [were] in the high gate of Benjamin, which [was] by the

house of the

LORD.

JER-20:3  And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought

forth

Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The

LORD hath not

called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.

JER-20:4  For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a

terror to

thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the

sword of their

enemies, and thine eyes shall behold [it]: and I will give all

Judah into the

hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive

into Babylon, and

shall slay them with the sword.

JER-20:5  Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city,

and all the

labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all

the treasures of

the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies,

which shall

spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.

JER-20:6  And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house

shall go into

captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt

die, and shalt

be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast

prophesied lies.

JER-20:7  O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived:

thou art stronger

than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one

mocketh me.

JER-20:8  For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and

spoil; because

the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision,

 daily.

JER-20:9  Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak

any more in

his name. But [his word] was in mine heart as a burning fire

shut up in my

bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not [stay].

JER-20:10  For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side.

Report, [say

they], and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my

halting,

[saying], Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail

against him,

and we shall take our revenge on him.

JER-20:11  But the LORD [is] with me as a mighty terrible one:

therefore my

persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they

shall be greatly

ashamed; for they shall not prosper: [their] everlasting

confusion shall never

be forgotten.

JER-20:12  But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous,

[and] seest the

reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto

thee have I

opened my cause.

JER-20:13  Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath

delivered the

soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.

JER-20:14  Cursed [be] the day wherein I was born: let not the

day wherein my

mother bare me be blessed.

JER-20:15  Cursed [be] the man who brought tidings to my father,

saying, A man

child is born unto thee; making him very glad.

JER-20:16  And let that man be as the cities which the LORD

overthrew, and

repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the

shouting at

noontide;

JER-20:17  Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my

mother might have

been my grave, and her womb [to be] always great [with me].

JER-20:18  Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour

and sorrow,

that my days should be consumed with shame?

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