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Yahweh Speaks Against Pashhur

¹ Then Pashhur the priest, the son of ^(C1)Immer, who was ^(C2)ruling overseer in the house of Yahweh, heard Jeremiah prophesying these words;² and Pashhur had Jeremiah the prophet ^(C1)struck and put him in the ^(C2)stocks that were at the upper ^(C3)Benjamin Gate, which was by the house of Yahweh.³ Now it happened that on the next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks. And Jeremiah said to him, "Pashhur is not the name Yahweh has ^(C1)called you, but rather ^(F1)(C2)Magor-missabib.⁴ "For thus says Yahweh, 'Behold, I am going to make you a ^(C1)terror to yourself and to all your friends; and while ^(C2)your eyes look on, they will fall by the sword of their enemies. So I will ^(C3)give over all Judah to the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will take them away into ^(C4)exile to Babylon and will strike them down with the sword.⁵ 'I will also give over all the ^(C1)wealth of this city, all the fruit of its labor, and all its precious things; even all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give over to the ^(C2)hand of their enemies, and they will plunder them, take them away, and bring them to Babylon.⁶ 'And you, ^(C1)Pashhur, and all who live in your house will go into captivity; and you will enter Babylon, and there you will die, and there you will be buried, you and all your ^(C2)friends to whom you have ^(C3)prophesied lies.'"

Jeremiah Curses the Day He Was Born

⁷ O Yahweh, You have enticed me, and I was enticed;
You were ^(C1)stronger than I, and You prevailed.
I have become a ^(C2)laughingstock all day long;
Everyone ^(C3)mocks me.

⁸ For each time I speak, I cry aloud;
I ^(C1)call out violence and devastation
Because for me the ^(C2)word of Yahweh has ^(F1)resulted
In reproach and derision all day long.

⁹ But if I say, "I will not ^(C1)remember Him
Or speak anymore in His name,"
Then in ^(C2)my heart it becomes like a burning fire
Shut up in my bones;
And I am weary of holding it in,
And ^(C3)I cannot prevail.

¹⁰ For ^(C1)I have heard the bad report of many,
"^(C2)Terror on every side!
^(C3)Denounce him; yes, let us denounce him!"
^(F1)All my ^(C4)trusted friends,
Keeping watch for my fall, say:
"Perhaps he will be ^(F2)deceived, so that we may ^(C5)prevail against him
And take our revenge on him."

¹¹ But ^(C1)Yahweh is with me like a ruthless mighty one;
Therefore my ^(C2)persecutors will stumble and not prevail.
They will be utterly ashamed, because they have not prospered,
With an ^(C3)everlasting dishonor that will not be forgotten.

¹² Yet, O Yahweh of hosts, You who ^(C1)test the righteous,
Who see the ^(F1)mind and the heart;
Let me ^(C2)see Your vengeance on them,
For ^(C3)to You I have revealed my cause.

^13 (C1)Sing to Yahweh, praise Yahweh!
For He has ^(C2)delivered the soul of the needy one
From the hand of evildoers.

¹⁴ Cursed be the ^(C1)day when I was born;
Let the day not be blessed when my mother bore me!

¹⁵ Cursed be the man who brought the good news
To my father, saying,
"A ^(F1)(C1)baby boy has been born to you!"
And made him very glad.

¹⁶ But let that man be like the cities
Which Yahweh ^(C1)overthrew without ^(F1)relenting,
And let him hear an ^(C2)outcry in the morning
And a ^(F2)shout of war at noon,

¹⁷ Because he did not ^(C1)put me to death from the womb,
So that my mother would have been my grave,
And her womb ever pregnant.

¹⁸ Why did I ever come forth from the womb
To ^(C1)look on trouble and sorrow,
So that my ^(C2)days have been spent in ^(C3)shame?