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          DASV: Jeremiah 20    

1 Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief
officer in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying
these things.
2 Then Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in
the stocks that were at the upper Benjamin Gate, which was
in the house of the LORD.
3 The next day when Pashhur released Jeremiah out of the stocks,
Jeremiah said to him, "The LORD has not called you 'Pashhur,'
but 'Terror on every side.'
4 For this is what the LORD says, 'I will make you a terror
to yourself, and to all your friends. They will fall by the
sword of their enemies and your eyes will see it. I will
give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and
he will carry them captive to Babylon or kill them with
the sword.
5 I will give all the wealth of this city, all its produce
and all its precious jewels, yes, all the treasures of the
kings of Judah into the hand of their enemies. They will
seize it as plunder and carry it off with them to Babylon.
6 You, Pashhur, and all who live in your house will go into
exile to Babylon. There you will die, and there you will be
buried, you and all your friends to whom you have prophesied
falsely."

7 O LORD, you have intimidated me,
          and I was intimidated,
     for you are stronger than I am,
          and you have prevailed.
      I have become a laughingstock all the day;
          everyone mocks me.
8 For whenever I speak, I have to cry out;
     I have to proclaim, "Violence and destruction!"
      The word of the LORD has made me
          an object of insult and derision all the day long.
9 If I say, "I will not make mention of him,
     or speak any more in his name,"
     then his word becomes in my heart
     like a burning fire locked up in my bones.
      I am exhausted trying to hold it in;
          truly, I cannot contain it.
10 For I have heard the slanderous whispering of many,
     "Terror on every side,
           denounce him,
           let us denounce him,"
           so say all my close friends.
      They expectantly hope for my downfall, saying,
     "Perhaps he can be trapped,
          and we can prevail against him,
          then we can get our revenge on him."

11 But the LORD is with me as a dreaded warrior;
     therefore my persecutors will stumble,
           and they will not prevail.
      They will be put to absolute shame,
          because they did not succeed;
           an everlasting dishonor
          that will never be forgotten.
12 But, O LORD of hosts, you test the righteous,
          you see into the heart and mind.
      Let me see your vengeance on them;
          for to you I have committed my cause.
13 Sing to the LORD, praise the LORD;
     he has rescued the life of the needy
           from the hand of evildoers.
14 Cursed be the day on which I was born;
     let not the day when my mother bore me be blessed.
15 Cursed be the man who announced to my father,
     "It's a baby boy,"
     making him very glad.
16 Let that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew
          without mercy.
      Let him hear a cry in the morning,
          and battle cry at noon,
17 because he did not kill me in the womb;
     and so my mother would have been my grave,
           and her womb pregnant forever.
18 Why did I come out of the womb
     just to see toil and sorrow,
     and spend my days in shame?

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