Yahweh Speaks Against Pashhur
Then Pashhur the priest, the son of aImmer, who was bruling overseer in the house of Yahweh, heard Jeremiah prophesying these words; 2 and Pashhur had Jeremiah the prophet astruck and put him in the bstocks that were at the upper cBenjamin 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 acalled you, but rather bMagor-missabib. 4 For thus says Yahweh, ‘Behold, I am going to make you a aterror to yourself and to all your friends; and while byour eyes look on, they will fall by the sword of their enemies. So I will cgive over all Judah to the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will take them away into dexile to Babylon and will strike them down with the sword. 5 I will also give over all the awealth 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 bhand of their enemies, and they will plunder them, take them away, and bring them to Babylon. 6 And you, aPashhur, 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 bfriends to whom you have cprophesied lies.’”
Jeremiah Curses the Day He Was Born
7 O Yahweh, You have enticed me, and I was enticed;
You were astronger than I, and You prevailed.
I have become a blaughingstock all day long;
Everyone cmocks me.
8 For each time I speak, I cry aloud;
I acall out violence and devastation
Because for me the bword of Yahweh has resulted
In reproach and derision all day long.
9 But if I say, “I will not aremember Him
Or speak anymore in His name,”
Then in bmy heart it becomes like a burning fire
Shut up in my bones;
And I am weary of holding it in,
And cI cannot prevail.
10 For aI have heard the bad report of many,
“bTerror on every side!
cDenounce him; yes, let us denounce him!”
All my dtrusted friends,
Keeping watch for my fall, say:
“Perhaps he will be deceived, so that we may eprevail against him
And take our revenge on him.”
11 But aYahweh is with me like a ruthless mighty one;
Therefore my bpersecutors will stumble and not prevail.
They will be utterly ashamed, because they have not prospered,
With an ceverlasting dishonor that will not be forgotten.
12 Yet, O Yahweh of hosts, You who atest the righteous,
Who see the mind and the heart;
Let me bsee Your vengeance on them,
For cto You I have revealed my cause.
13 aSing to Yahweh, praise Yahweh!
For He has bdelivered the soul of the needy one
From the hand of evildoers.
14 Cursed be the aday 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 ababy boy has been born to you!”
And made him very glad.
16 But let that man be like the cities
Which Yahweh aoverthrew without relenting,
And let him hear an boutcry in the morning
And a shout of war at noon,
17 Because he did not aput 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 alook on trouble and sorrow,
So that my bdays have been spent in cshame?