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Jeremiah 20:1-18 — Jeremiah and Pashhur; Jeremiah's Complaint

Jer.20.1-18

¹Now Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer, who was chief officer in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. ²Then 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 the LORD. ³The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, "The LORD has not called your name Pashhur, but Terror on Every Side . ⁴For 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 your eyes look on. And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon; he will exile them to Babylon and strike them down with the sword. ⁵Moreover, I will give all the wealth of this city, all the products of its labor, and all its precious things; even all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give into the hand of their enemies, who will plunder them, take them, and bring them to Babylon. ⁶And you, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house, will go into captivity. You will go to Babylon, and there you will die, and there you will be buried—you and all your friends to whom you have prophesied falsely.'" ⁷O LORD, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded; you overpowered me and prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me. ⁸For whenever I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and destruction! For the word of the LORD has become to me a reproach and a derision all day long. ⁹If I say, “I will not mention him, or 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 of holding it in, and I cannot. ¹⁰For I have heard the slander of many: “Terror on every side! Report him! Let us report him!” All the people at peace with me, who watch for my stumbling, say, “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.” ¹¹But the LORD is with me like a terrifying warrior; therefore my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. They will be greatly put to shame, for they have not succeeded; their everlasting disgrace will not be forgotten. ¹²O LORD of Hosts, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind , let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you I have revealed my cause. ¹³Sing to the LORD! Praise the LORD! For he has delivered the life of the needy from the hand of evildoers. ¹⁴Cursed be the day on which I was born! May the day on which my mother bore me not be blessed! ¹⁵Cursed be the man who brought the good news to my father, saying, “A male child is born to you,” making him very glad! ¹⁶May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion! May he hear an outcry in the morning, and a battle cry at noon, ¹⁷because he did not kill me in the womb, so that my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever pregnant. ¹⁸Why did I come out from the womb to see trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?

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4/11/2026

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