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1Now the priest Pashhur son of Immer, who was chief officer in the house of the Lord , heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.[#2 Kings 25.18; 1 Chr 24.14]
2Then Pashhur struck the prophet Jeremiah and put him in the stocks that were in the upper Benjamin Gate of the house of the Lord .[#Job 13.27; Jer 1.19; 37.13; 38.7]
3The next morning when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The Lord has named you not Pashhur but ‘Terror-all-around.’
4For thus says the Lord : I am making you a terror to yourself and to all your friends, and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies while you look on. And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon; he shall carry them captive to Babylon and shall kill them with the sword.[#Job 18.11–21; Jer 21.4–10; 29.21; 52.27]
5I will give all the wealth of this city, all its gains, all its prized belongings, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hand of their enemies, who shall plunder them and seize them and carry them to Babylon.[#2 Kings 20.17; 2 Chr 36.10; Jer 3.24; 15.13; 17.3]
6And you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house, shall go into captivity, and to Babylon you shall go; there you shall die, and there you shall be buried, you and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely.”[#v 1; Jer 14.13–15; 28.15–17; 29.21]
7O Lord , you have enticed me,[#Jer 1.6–8; 38.19; Mic 3.8]
and I was enticed;
you have overpowered me,
and you have prevailed.
I have become a laughingstock all day long;
everyone mocks me.
8For whenever I speak, I must cry out;[#2 Chr 36.16; Jer 6.7, 10]
I must shout, “Violence and destruction!”
For the word of the Lord has become for me
a reproach and derision all day long.
9If I say, “I will not mention him[#1 Kings 19.3, 4; Job 32.18–20; Ps 39.3; Acts 4.20]
or speak any more in his name,”
then within me there is something like a burning fire
shut up in my bones;
I am weary with holding it in,
and I cannot.
10For I hear many whispering:[#Ps 31.13; 41.9; Lk 11.53, 54]
“Terror is all around!
Denounce him! Let us denounce him!”
All my close friends
are watching for me to stumble.
“Perhaps he can be enticed,
and we can prevail against him
and take our revenge on him.”
11But the Lord is with me like a terrifying warrior;[#Jer 1.8, 19; 15.20; 17.18; 23.40]
therefore my persecutors will stumble,
and they will not prevail.
They will be greatly shamed,
for they will not succeed.
Their eternal dishonor
will never be forgotten.
12O Lord of hosts, you test the righteous;[#Ps 54.7; 59.10; Jer 11.20; 17.10]
you see the heart and the mind;
let me see your retribution upon them,
for to you I have committed my cause.
13Sing to the Lord ;[#Ps 35.9, 10; Jer 15.21; 31.7]
praise the Lord !
For he has delivered the life of the needy
from the hands of evildoers.
14Cursed be the day[#Job 3.3; Jer 15.10]
on which I was born!
The day when my mother bore me,
let it not be blessed!
15Cursed be the man[#Gen 21.6, 7]
who brought the news to my father, saying,
“A child is born to you, a son,”
making him very glad.
16Let that man be like the cities[#Gen 19.25; Jer 18.22]
that the Lord overthrew without pity;
let him hear a cry in the morning
and an alarm at noon,
17because he did not kill me in the womb;[#Job 3.10, 11; 10.18, 19]
so my mother would have been my grave
and her womb forever pregnant.
18Why did I come forth from the womb[#Job 3.20; Ps 90.9; Jer 3.25]
to see toil and sorrow
and spend my days in shame?