Jeremiah 20
About Jeremiah Jeremiah calls Judah to turn back before Babylon's conquest and promises a new covenant afterward.
1Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.SelectedJeremiah 20:1Ask
2Then 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.SelectedJeremiah 20:2Ask
3And 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.SelectedJeremiah 20:3Ask
4For 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.SelectedJeremiah 20:4Ask
5Moreover 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.SelectedJeremiah 20:5Ask
6And 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.SelectedJeremiah 20:6Ask
7O 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.SelectedJeremiah 20:7Ask
8For 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.SelectedJeremiah 20:8Ask
9Then 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.SelectedJeremiah 20:9Ask
10For 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.SelectedJeremiah 20:10Ask
11But 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.SelectedJeremiah 20:11Ask
12But, 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.SelectedJeremiah 20:12Ask
13Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.SelectedJeremiah 20:13Ask
14Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.SelectedJeremiah 20:14Ask
15Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.SelectedJeremiah 20:15Ask
16And 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;SelectedJeremiah 20:16Ask
17Because 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.SelectedJeremiah 20:17Ask
18Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?SelectedJeremiah 20:18Ask
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