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Read Jeremiah 20

World English Bible · 18 verses

¹ Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in Yahweh’s house, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
² Then 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³ On the next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴ For Yahweh says, ‘Behold, 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, and will kill them with the sword.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁵ Moreover I will give all the riches of this city, and all its gains, and all its precious things, yes, I will give all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hand of their enemies. They will make them captives, take them, and carry them to Babylon.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁶ You, 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.’”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁷ Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. Everyone mocks me.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁸ For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, “Violence and destruction!” because Yahweh’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁹ If I say that I will not make mention of him, 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁰ For I have heard the defaming of many: “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.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹¹ But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one. 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹² But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹³ Sing to Yahweh! Praise Yahweh, for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁴ Cursed is the day in which I was born. Don’t let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁵ Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying, “A boy is born to you,” making him very glad.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁶ Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn’t repent. Let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁷ because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁸ Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

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