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Jeremiah 20 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

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Pashhur Persecutes Jeremiah

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Now Pashhur the son of Immer, the priest, who was [also] chief officer in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:2 - Then Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were at the upper Benjamin Gate by the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:3 - And the next day Pashhur brought Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD does not call your name Pashhur, but Magor-missabib (terror on every side).

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:4 - “For thus says the LORD, ‘Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends; they will fall by the sword of their enemies while you look on. And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon; he will carry them away to Babylon as captives and will slaughter them with the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:5 - ‘Moreover, I will hand over all the riches of this city, all the result of its labor, all its precious things; even all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will hand over to their enemies, and they will plunder them, and take them away and carry them to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:6 - ‘And you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house will go into captivity; you will go to Babylon, and there you will die and be buried, you and all your friends to whom you have falsely prophesied.’”

Jeremiah’s Complaint

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[Jeremiah said,] O LORD, You have persuaded me and I was deceived;

You are stronger than I and You have prevailed.

I am a laughingstock all day long;

Everyone mocks me.

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For whenever I speak, I must shout out;

I shout violence and destruction,

Because the word of the LORD has become to me

A reprimand and a mockery and has brought me insult all day long.

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If I say, “I will not remember Him

Or speak His name anymore,”

Then my heart becomes a burning fire

Shut up in my bones.

And I am weary of enduring and holding it in;

I cannot endure it [nor contain it any longer].

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For I have heard the whispering and defaming words of many,

“Terror on every side!

Denounce him! Let us denounce him!”

All my familiar and trusted friends,

[Those who are] watching for my fall, say,

“Perhaps he will be persuaded and deceived; then we will overcome him,

And take our revenge on him.”

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But the LORD is with me as a dread champion [one to be greatly feared];

Therefore my persecutors will stumble and not overcome [me].

They will be completely shamed, for they have not acted wisely and have failed [in their schemes];

Their eternal dishonor will never be forgotten.

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But, O LORD of hosts, You who examine the righteous,

Who see the heart and the mind,

Let me see Your vengeance on them;

For to You I have committed my cause.

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Sing to the LORD! Praise the LORD!

For He has rescued the life of the needy one

From the hand of evildoers.

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Cursed be the day on which I was born;

Do not bless the day on which my mother gave birth to me!

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Cursed be the man who brought the news

To my father, saying,

“A son has been born to you!”

Making him very glad.

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And let that man be like the cities

Which the LORD overthrew without regret.

Let him hear an outcry in the morning

And a shout of alarm at noon;

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Because he did not kill me before my birth,

So that my mother might have been my grave,

And her womb always pregnant.

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Why did I come out of the womb

To see trouble and sorrow,

So that my days have been filled with shame?

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