Jer 20
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Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in the house of YHWH,
heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.
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Then 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 YHWH.
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And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah out of the
stocks. Then said Jeremiah to him, YHWH has not called your name Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.
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For thus says YHWH, Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself, and to all your
friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and your 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.
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Moreover I will give all the riches of this city, and all its gains, 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.
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And you, 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 shall you be buried, you,
and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely.
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O YHWH, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded; you are stronger than I, and have
prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocks me.
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For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because the word
of YHWH is made a reproach to me, and a derision, all the day.
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And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then
there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary
with forbearing, and I cannot [contain].
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For 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.
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But 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.
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But, O YHWH of hosts, that try the righteous, that see the heart and the mind, let
me see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause.
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Sing to YHWH, praise you YHWH; for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the
hand of evil-doers.
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Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be
blessed.
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Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man-child is born to
you; making him very glad.
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And 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;
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because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and
her womb always great.
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Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should
be consumed with shame?