Jeremiah 20

1Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in Yahweh’s house, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.Cross-references: 2Ki 25:18 · 1Chr 24:14 · 2Chr 35:8 · Ezra 2:37 · Neh 7:40 · Acts 4:1 · +1 more

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.Cross-references: 1Ki 22:27 · 2Chr 16:10 · 2Chr 24:21 · Job 13:27 · Jer 1:19 · Jer 19:14 · +19 more

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.Cross-references: Gen 17:5 · Gen 17:15 · Gen 32:28 · Ps 31:13 · Isa 8:3 · Jer 6:25 · +11 more

4For 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.Cross-references: Deut 28:32 · Deut 28:65 · 1Sam 2:33 · 2Ki 25:7 · Job 18:11 · Job 20:23 · +11 more

5Moreover 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.Cross-references: 2Ki 20:17 · 2Ki 24:12 · 2Ki 25:13 · 2Chr 36:10 · 2Chr 36:17 · Jer 3:24 · +15 more

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.’”Cross-references: Lev 26:17 · Deut 28:25 · Isa 9:15 · Jer 5:31 · Jer 6:13 · Jer 8:10 · +16 more

7Yahweh, 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.Cross-references: Ex 5:22 · Num 11:11 · 2Ki 2:23 · Ps 22:6 · Ps 35:15 · Ps 69:9 · +20 more

8For 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.Cross-references: 2Chr 36:16 · Jer 4:19 · Jer 5:1 · Jer 5:6 · Jer 5:15 · Jer 6:6 · +15 more

9If 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.Cross-references: 1Ki 19:3 · Job 32:18 · Ps 39:3 · Jer 6:11 · Ezek 3:14 · Luke 9:62 · +8 more

10For 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.”Cross-references: 1Ki 19:2 · 1Ki 21:20 · 1Ki 22:8 · 1Ki 22:27 · Neh 6:6 · Job 19:19 · +21 more

11But 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.Cross-references: Deut 32:35 · Ps 6:10 · Ps 27:1 · Ps 35:26 · Ps 40:14 · Ps 47:2 · +14 more

12But 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.Cross-references: 1Sam 1:15 · 2Chr 24:22 · Ps 7:9 · Ps 11:5 · Ps 17:3 · Ps 26:2 · +19 more

13Sing to Yahweh! Praise Yahweh, for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers.Cross-references: Ps 34:6 · Ps 35:9 · Ps 69:33 · Ps 72:4 · Ps 109:30 · Isa 25:4 · +1 more

14Cursed is the day in which I was born. Don’t let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.Cross-references: Job 3:3 · Jer 15:10

15Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying, “A boy is born to you,” making him very glad.Cross-references: Gen 21:5 · Jer 1:5 · Luke 1:14

16Let 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,Cross-references: Gen 19:24 · Deut 29:23 · Jer 4:19 · Jer 18:8 · Jer 18:22 · Jer 26:13 · +15 more

17because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.Cross-references: Job 3:10 · Job 3:16 · Job 10:18 · Eccl 6:3

18Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?Cross-references: Gen 3:16 · Job 3:20 · Job 14:1 · Job 14:13 · Ps 69:19 · Ps 90:9 · +14 more