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    Jeremiah · 18 verses

    Jeremiah 20

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    Jeremiah is released from the stocks only to rename the priest who put him there, and then—after singing that the LORD rescues the needy—curse the day of his birth.

    The priest acquires a new namevv. 1–6

    Pashhur, priest, son of Immer, and chief official in the house of the LORD, hears Jeremiah prophesying and has him beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin. The next day, release brings no apology: Jeremiah declares that Pashhur shall instead be called Magor-missabib, “a terror to yourself and to all your friends.” Judah, its wealth, Pashhur, his household, and the friends to whom he prophesied are all handed over to the king of Babylon; the chapter is admirably economical about the consequences of a bad sermon.

    A word that will not stay putvv. 7–13

    Jeremiah says that the LORD has overcome him, leaving him a laughingstock while the word he speaks becomes reproach and derision. He considers silence, but the message burns in his heart and bones until he cannot hold it in. His trusted friends watch for his fall, while the LORD stands with him like a fearsome warrior; suddenly the lament turns to song: “Sing to the LORD! Praise the LORD!”

    The birthday is put on trialvv. 14–18

    The song lasts exactly one verse. Jeremiah curses the day he was born, then the man who brought his father the news and the joy of a son. He wishes that he had died in the womb, with his mother’s womb as his grave, and ends by asking why he came out to see trouble and sorrow and finish his days in shame. The chapter leaves the reversal standing, without furnishing a bridge between praise and birth-day ruin.

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    1. Jer 20:1When Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer and the chief official in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things,

    2. Jer 20:2he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.

    3. Jer 20:3The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD does not call you Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.

    4. Jer 20:4For this is what the LORD says: ‘I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of their enemies before your very eyes. And I will hand Judah over to the king of Babylon, and he will carry them away to Babylon and put them to the sword.

    5. Jer 20:5I will give away all the wealth of this city—all its products and valuables, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah—to their enemies. They will plunder them, seize them, and carry them off to Babylon.

    6. Jer 20:6And you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house, will go into captivity. You will go to Babylon, and there you will die and be buried—you and all your friends to whom you have prophesied these lies.’”

    7. Jer 20:7You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.

    8. Jer 20:8For whenever I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and destruction. For the word of the LORD has become to me a reproach and derision all day long.

    9. Jer 20:9If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.

    10. Jer 20:10For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him.”

    11. Jer 20:11But the LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly put to shame, with an everlasting disgrace that will never be forgotten.

    12. Jer 20:12O LORD of Hosts, who examines the righteous, who sees the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.

    13. Jer 20:13Sing to the LORD! Praise the LORD! For He rescues the life of the needy from the hands of evildoers.

    14. Jer 20:14Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.

    15. Jer 20:15Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, “A son is born to you,” bringing him great joy.

    16. Jer 20:16May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. May he hear an outcry in the morning and a battle cry at noon,

    17. Jer 20:17because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.

    18. Jer 20:18Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?

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    Where this is echoed

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    • 11Jeremiah 1:19They will fight against you but will never overcome you, since I am with you to deliver you,” declares the LORD.
    • 9Psalms 39:3My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:
    • 11Jeremiah 1:8Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you,” declares the LORD.
    • 9Job 32:18–20For I am full of words, and my spirit within me compels me.
    • 11Isaiah 41:10Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.
    • 11Psalms 40:14May those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded; may those who wish me harm be repelled and humiliated.
    • 9Acts 4:20For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”
    • 11Psalms 6:10All my enemies will be ashamed and dismayed; they will turn back in sudden disgrace.
    • 11Romans 8:31What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
    • 11Jeremiah 23:40And I will bring upon you everlasting shame and perpetual humiliation that will never be forgotten.”
    • 11Isaiah 45:16They will all be put to shame and humiliated; the makers of idols will depart together in disgrace.
    • 112 Timothy 4:17But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.
    • 91 Corinthians 9:16–17Yet when I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am obligated to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
    • 11Deuteronomy 32:35–36Vengeance is Mine; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”
    • 9Acts 17:16While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply disturbed in his spirit to see that the city was full of idols.
    • 9Ezekiel 3:14So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the LORD upon me.

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