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Chapter 20 |
| 1 | Now Pashur the
son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD,
heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things. |
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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 house of the LORD. |
| 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. |
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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 sword of
their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into
the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon,
and shall slay them with the sword. |
| 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 kings of Judah will I give into the hand
of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to
Babylon. |
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| And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall
go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die,
and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast
prophesied lies. |
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7 | O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived;
thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one
mocketh me. |
| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| 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. |
| 12 | But, O LORD
of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me
see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause. |
| 13 |
Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the
poor from the hand of evildoers. |
| 14 | Cursed be the day wherein I
was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. |
| 15 |
Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born
unto thee; making him very glad. |
| 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; |
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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. |
| 18 | Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to
see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame? |
