Jeremiah Chapter 20

• Jeremiah 20:1
  Jeremiah.
• Jeremiah 20:2
  Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in the LORD’s house, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.
• Jeremiah 20:3
  Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the LORD’s house.
• Jeremiah 20:4
  On the next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib...
• Jeremiah 20:5
  For the LORD 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 ...
• Jeremiah 20:6
  Moreover 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 J...
• Jeremiah 20:7
  You, 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, ...
• Jeremiah 20:8
  LORD, 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 m...
• Jeremiah 20:9
  For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, “Violence and destruction!” because the LORD’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day...
• Jeremiah 20:10
  If 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. ...
• Jeremiah 20:11
  For 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...
• Jeremiah 20:12
  But the LORD is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed bec...
• Jeremiah 20:13
  But the LORD 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 y...
• Jeremiah 20:14
  Sing to the LORD! Praise the LORD, for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers.
• Jeremiah 20:15
  Cursed is the day in which I was born. Don’t let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
• Jeremiah 20:16
  Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying, “A boy is born to you,” making him very glad.
• Jeremiah 20:17
  Let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and didn’t repent. Let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime,
• Jeremiah 20:18
  because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
• Jeremiah 20:19
  Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?