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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer and chief official in the temple of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2So Pashhur had the prophet Jeremiah beaten and put him in the stocks at the Upper Benjamin Gate in the LORD's temple. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, "The LORD does not call you Pashhur, but Terror Is on Every Side, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4for this is what the LORD says, 'I am about to make you a terror to both yourself and those you love. They will fall by the sword of their enemies before your very eyes. I will hand Judah over to the king of Babylon, and he will deport them to Babylon and put them to the sword. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5I will give away all the wealth of this city, all its products and valuables. Indeed, I will hand all the treasures of the kings of Judah over to their enemies. They will plunder them, seize them, and carry them off to Babylon. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6As for you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house, you will go into captivity. You will go to Babylon. There you will die, and there you will be buried, you and all your friends to whom you prophesied lies.'" |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7You deceived me, LORD, and I was deceived. You seized me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all the time; everyone ridicules me. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8For whenever I speak, I cry out, I proclaim, "Violence and destruction!" so the word of the LORD has become my constant disgrace and derision. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9I say, "I won't mention him or speak any longer in his name." But his message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones. I become tired of holding it in, and I cannot prevail. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10For I have heard the gossip of many people, "Terror is on every side! Report him; let's report him!" Everyone I trusted watches for my fall. "Perhaps he will be deceived so that we might prevail against him and take our vengeance on him." |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11But the LORD is with me like a violent warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and not prevail. Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly shamed, an everlasting humiliation that will never be forgotten. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12LORD of Armies, testing the righteous and seeing the heart and mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have presented my case to you. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Sing to the LORD! Praise the LORD, for he rescues the life of the needy from evil people. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14May the day I was born be cursed. May the day my mother bore me never be blessed. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15May the man be cursed who brought the news to my father, saying, "A male child is born to you," bringing him great joy. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Let that man be like the cities the LORD demolished without compassion. Let him hear an outcry in the morning and a war cry at noontime |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17because he didn't kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, her womb eternally pregnant. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Why did I come out of the womb to see only struggle and sorrow, to end my life in shame? |
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