Jeremiah Chapter 20
20:1 | Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who [was] also chief governor in the ![]() |
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 ![]() |
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. |
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 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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 ![]() ![]() |
20:6 | And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine ![]() ![]() |
20:7 | O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou ![]() |
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. |
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]. |
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. |
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. |
20:12 | But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, [and] seest the reins and the heart, let me ![]() |
20:13 | Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers. |
20:14 | Cursed [be] the ![]() ![]() |
20:15 | Cursed [be] the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad. |
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; |
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]. |
20:18 | Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to ![]() ![]() |