Jeremiah 20

Jeremiah Persecuted by Pashhur

1 Now j Pashhur the priest, the son of k Immer, who was l chief officer in the house of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. 2 Then j Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet, and put him m in the stocks that were in the upper n Benjamin Gate of the house of the Lord. 3 The next day, when j Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, "The Lord does not call your name j Pashhur, but Terror On Every Side. 4 For thus says the Lord: Behold, I will make you o a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They shall 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 shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall strike them down with the sword. 5 Moreover, p I will give all the wealth of the city, all its gains, all its q prized belongings, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hand of their enemies, who shall plunder them and seize them and carry them to Babylon. 6 And you, r Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house, shall go into captivity. To Babylon you shall go, and there you shall die, and there you shall be buried, you and all your friends, s to whom you have prophesied falsely."

7 O Lord, t you have deceived me,
and I was deceived;
u you are stronger than I,
and you have prevailed.
v I have become a laughingstock all the day;
everyone mocks me.
 8 For whenever I speak, I cry out,
I shout, w "Violence and destruction!"
For x the word of the Lord has become for me
y a reproach and y derision all day long.
 9 If I say, "I will not mention him,
or speak any more in his name,"
z there is in my heart as it were a burning fire
shut up in my bones,
and a I am weary with holding it in,
and I cannot.
 10 b For I hear many whispering.
c Terror is on every side!
"Denounce him! d Let us denounce him!"
say all my e close friends,
f watching for g my fall.
"Perhaps he will be deceived;
then h we can overcome him
and take our revenge on him."
 11 But i the Lord is with me as a dread warrior;
therefore my persecutors will stumble;
i they will not overcome me.
j They will be greatly shamed,
for they will not succeed.
Their k eternal dishonor
will never be forgotten.
 12 O Lord of hosts, who tests the righteous,
l who sees the heart and the mind, 1
let me see your vengeance upon them,
for to you have I committed my cause.

13 m Sing to the Lord;
praise the Lord!
For he has delivered the life of the needy
from the hand of evildoers.

14 n Cursed be the day
on which I was born!
The day when my mother bore me,
let it not be blessed!
 15 Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father,
"A son is born to you,"
o making him very glad.
 16 Let that man be like p the cities
that the Lord overthrew without pity;
q let him hear a cry in the morning
and an alarm at noon,
 17 r because he did not kill me in the womb;
so my mother would have been my grave,
and her womb forever great.
 18 s Why did I come out from the womb
t to see toil and sorrow,
and spend my days in shame?

  1. Cross References
    Jeremiah 21:1
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchiah and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, saying.
    Jeremiah 38:1
    Now Shephatiah the son of Mattan, Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchiah heard the words that Jeremiah was saying to all the people.
    1 Chronicles 9:12
    And Adaiah the son of Jeroham, son of Pashhur, son of Malchijah, and Maasai the son of Adiel, son of Jahzerah, son of Meshullam, son of Meshillemith, son of Immer.
    Ezra 2:38
    The sons of Pashhur, 1,247.
  2. Cross References
    1 Chronicles 24:14
    The fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer.
    Ezra 2:37
    The sons of Immer, 1,052.
  3. Cross References
    Jeremiah 29:26
    The Lord has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, to have charge in the house of the Lord over every madman who prophesies, to put him in the stocks and neck irons.
  4. Cross References
    Jeremiah 20:1
    Now Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer, who was chief officer in the house of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.
  5. Cross References
    Jeremiah 29:26
    The Lord has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, to have charge in the house of the Lord over every madman who prophesies, to put him in the stocks and neck irons.
    Acts 16:24
    Having received this order, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.
  6. Cross References
    Jeremiah 37:13
    When he was at the Benjamin Gate, a sentry there named Irijah the son of Shelemiah, son of Hananiah, seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, "You are deserting to the Chaldeans.
  7. Cross References
    Jeremiah 20:1
    Now Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer, who was chief officer in the house of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.
  8. Cross References
    Jeremiah 20:1
    Now Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer, who was chief officer in the house of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.
  9. Cross References
    Jeremiah 6:25
    Go not out into the field, nor walk on the road, for the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.
  10. Cross References
    2 Kings 20:17
    Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the Lord.
    2 Kings 24:12 - 16
    And Jehoiachin the king of Judah gave himself up to the king of Babylon, himself and his mother and his servants and his officials and his palace officials. The king of Babylon took him prisoner in the eighth year of his reign
    2 Kings 25:13 - 17
    And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the Lord, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried the bronze to Babylon.
  11. Cross References
    Job 28:10
    He cuts out channels in the rocks, and his eye sees every precious thing.
    Ezekiel 22:25
    The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst.
  12. Cross References
    Jeremiah 21:1
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchiah and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, saying.
    Jeremiah 38:1
    Now Shephatiah the son of Mattan, Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchiah heard the words that Jeremiah was saying to all the people.
    1 Chronicles 9:12
    And Adaiah the son of Jeroham, son of Pashhur, son of Malchijah, and Maasai the son of Adiel, son of Jahzerah, son of Meshullam, son of Meshillemith, son of Immer.
    Ezra 2:38
    The sons of Pashhur, 1,247.
  13. Cross References
    Jeremiah 14:14
    And the Lord said to me: "The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds.
  14. Cross References
    Ezekiel 14:9
    And if the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, the Lord, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
  15. Cross References
    2 Peter 1:21
    For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
  16. Cross References
    Psalms 119:51
    The insolent utterly deride me, but I do not turn away from your law.
    Lamentations 3:14
    I have become the laughingstock of all peoples, the object of their taunts all day long.
  17. Cross References
    Jeremiah 6:7
    As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps fresh her evil; violence and destruction are heard within her; sickness and wounds are ever before me.
  18. Cross References
    Jeremiah 6:10
    To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised, they cannot listen; behold, the word of the Lord is to them an object of scorn; they take no pleasure in it.
  19. Cross References
    Psalms 44:13
    You have made us the taunt of our neighbors, the derision and scorn of those around us.
    Psalms 79:4
    We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those around us.
  20. Cross References
    Psalms 44:13
    You have made us the taunt of our neighbors, the derision and scorn of those around us.
    Psalms 79:4
    We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those around us.
  21. Cross References
    Job 32:18 - 19
    For I am full of words; the spirit within me constrains me.
    Psalms 39:3
    My heart became hot within me. As I mused, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue:
  22. Cross References
    Jeremiah 6:11
    Therefore I am full of the wrath of the Lord ; I am weary of holding it in. "Pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the gatherings of young men, also; both husband and wife shall be taken, the elderly and the very aged.
  23. Cross References
    Psalms 31:13
    For I hear the whispering of many - terror on every side! - as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.
  24. Cross References
    Jeremiah 6:25
    Go not out into the field, nor walk on the road, for the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.
  25. Cross References
    Jeremiah 36:16
    When they heard all the words, they turned one to another in fear. And they said to Baruch, "We must report all these words to the king.
    Jeremiah 36:20
    So they went into the court to the king, having put the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the secretary, and they reported all the words to the king.
  26. Cross References
    Psalms 41:9
    Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.
    Psalms 55:13
    But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend.
    Jeremiah 9:4
    Let everyone beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother, for every brother is a deceiver, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.
    Jeremiah 38:22
    Behold, all the women left in the house of the king of Judah were being led out to the officials of the king of Babylon and were saying, "'Your trusted friends have deceived you and prevailed against you; now that your feet are sunk in the mud, they turn away from you.
  27. Cross References
    Psalms 56:6
    They stir up strife, they lurk; they watch my steps, as they have waited for my life.
  28. Cross References
    Psalms 35:15
    But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered; they gathered together against me; wretches whom I did not know tore at me without ceasing.
  29. Cross References
    Jeremiah 1:19
    They will fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you, for I am with you, declares the Lord, to deliver you.
    Jeremiah 5:22
    Do you not fear me? declares the Lord. Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as the boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot pass over it.
  30. Cross References
    Jeremiah 1:8
    Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, declares the Lord.
  31. Cross References
    Jeremiah 1:8
    Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, declares the Lord.
  32. Cross References
    Jeremiah 17:18
    Let those be put to shame who persecute me, but let me not be put to shame; let them be dismayed, but let me not be dismayed; bring upon them the day of disaster; destroy them with double destruction!
    Jeremiah 23:40
    And I will bring upon you everlasting reproach and perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.'
  33. Cross References
    Jeremiah 23:40
    And I will bring upon you everlasting reproach and perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
  34. Cross References
    Jeremiah 11:20
    But, O Lord of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause.
  35. Cross References
    Psalms 35:9 - 10
    Then my soul will rejoice in the Lord, exulting in his salvation.
    Psalms 109:30 - 31
    With my mouth I will give great thanks to the Lord ; I will praise him in the midst of the throng.
  36. Cross References
    Jeremiah 15:10
    Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.
    Job 3:3
    "Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, 'A man is conceived.'
  37. Cross References
    John 16:21
    When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.
  38. Cross References
    Genesis 19:25
    And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
    Isaiah 13:19
    And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.
  39. Cross References
    Jeremiah 18:22
    May a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring the plunderer suddenly upon them! For they have dug a pit to take me and laid snares for my feet.
  40. Cross References
    Job 3:10 - 11
    Because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.
  41. Cross References
    Job 3:20
    Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul.
  42. Cross References
    Lamentations 3:1 - 2
    I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his wrath.
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