Jeremiah 20
1Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in Yahweh’s house, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.
2Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in Yahweh’s house.
3On the next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.
6You, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house will go into captivity. You will come to Babylon, and there you will die, and there you will be buried, you, and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely.’”
You are stronger than I, and have prevailed.
I have become a laughingstock all day.
Everyone mocks me.
I cry, “Violence and destruction!”
because Yahweh’s word has been made a reproach to me,
and a derision, all day.
or speak any more in his name,
then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones.
I am weary with holding it in.
I can’t.
“Terror on every side!
Denounce, and we will denounce him!”
say all my familiar friends,
those who watch for my fall.
“Perhaps he will be persuaded,
and we will prevail against him,
and we will take our revenge on him.”
Therefore my persecutors will stumble,
and they won’t prevail.
They will be utterly disappointed,
because they have not dealt wisely,
even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.
who sees the heart and the mind,
let me see your vengeance on them,
for I have revealed my cause to you.
Praise Yahweh,
for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers.
Don’t let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
“A boy is born to you,” making him very glad.
and didn’t repent.
Let him hear a cry in the morning,
and shouting at noontime;
So my mother would have been my grave,
and her womb always great.
that my days should be consumed with shame?