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Jeremiah 20 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

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Pashhur Persecutes Jeremiah

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When Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer, who was chief overseer in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:2 - Pashhur had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put him in the stocks that were at the upper Benjamin Gate, which was by the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:3 - Then on the next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “Pashhur is not the name the LORD has called you, but rather [fn]Magor-missabib.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:4 - “For this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I am going to make you a horror to yourself and to all your friends; and while your eyes look on, they will fall by the sword of their enemies. So I will hand all Judah over to the king of Babylon, and he will take them away as exiles to Babylon and will kill them with the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:5 - ‘I will also give all the wealth of this city, all its produce and all its valuable things—even all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will hand over to their enemies, and they will plunder them, take them away, and bring 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; and you will enter Babylon, and there you will die and there you will be buried, you and all your friends to whom you have falsely prophesied.’”

Jeremiah’s Complaint

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LORD, You persuaded me and I let myself be persuaded;

You have overcome me and prevailed.

I have become a laughingstock all day long;

Everyone mocks me.

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For each time I speak, I cry aloud;

I proclaim violence and destruction,

Because for me the word of the LORD has [fn]resulted

In taunting and derision all day long.

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But if I say, “I will not remember Him

Nor speak anymore in His name,”

Then in my heart it becomes like a burning fire

Shut up in my bones;

And I am tired of holding it in,

And I cannot endure it.

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For I have heard the whispering of many,

“Terror on every side!

Denounce him; let’s denounce him!”

[fn]All my trusted friends,

Watching for my fall, say:

“Perhaps he will be persuaded, so that we may prevail against him

And take our revenge on him.”

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But the LORD is with me like a powerful champion;

Therefore my persecutors will stumble and not prevail.

They will be put to great shame because they have [fn]failed,

An everlasting disgrace that will not be forgotten.

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Yet, LORD of armies, who tests the righteous,

Who sees the [fn]mind and the heart;

Let me see Your vengeance on them,

For to You I have disclosed my cause.

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Sing to the LORD, praise the LORD!

For He has saved the soul of the needy one

From the hand of evildoers.

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Cursed be the day when I was born;

May the day when my mother gave birth to me not be blessed!

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Cursed be the man who brought the news

To my father, saying,

“A [fn]boy has been born to you!”

And made him very happy.

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But may that man be like the cities

Which the LORD overthrew without [fn]relenting,

And may he hear an outcry in the morning

And [fn]an alarm for war at noon;

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Because he did not kill me [fn]before birth,

So that my mother would have been my grave,

And her womb forever pregnant.

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Why did I ever come out of the womb

To look at trouble and sorrow,

So that my days have been spent in shame?

See the NASB20 Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NASB20 Footnotes
I.e., horror on every side
Lit become
Lit Every man of my peace
Lit not succeeded; or not acted wisely
Lit kidneys
Lit male child
Lit being sorry
Or a trumpet blast
Lit from the womb
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Jeremiah Chapter 20 — Additional Translations:

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