Jeremiah:20

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* Now Phassur the son of Emmur , the priest , who was appointed chief in the house of the Lord , heard Jeremias prophesying these words . * And Phassur struck Jeremias the prophet , and put him in the stocks , that were in the upper gate of Benjamin , in the house of the Lord . * And when it was light the next day , Phassur brought Jeremias out of the stocks . And Jeremias said to him : The Lord hath not called thy name Phassur , but fear on every side . * For thus saith the Lord : Behold I will deliver thee up to fear , thee and all thy friends : and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies , and thy eyes shall see it , and I will give all Juda into the hand of the king of Babylon : and he shall strike them with the sword . * And I will give all the substance of this city , and all its labour , and every precious thing thereof , and all the treasures of the kings of Juda will I give into the hands of their enemies : and they shall pillage them , and take them away , and carry them to Babylon . * But thou , Phassur , and all that dwell in thy house , shall go into captivity , and thou shalt go to Babylon , and there thou shalt die , and there thou shalt be buried , thou and all thy friends , to whom thou hast prophesied a lie . * Thou hast deceived me , O Lord , and I am deceived : thou hast been stronger than I , and thou hast prevailed . I am become a laughing-stock all the day , all scoff at me . * For I am speaking now this long time , crying out against iniquity , and I often proclaim devistation : and the word of the Lord is made a reproach to me , and a derision all the day . * Then I said : I will not make mention of him , nor speak any more in his name : and there came in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones , and I was wearied , not being able to bear it . * For I heard the reproaches of many , and terror on every side : Persecute him , and let us persecute him : from all the men that were my familiars , and continued at my side : if by any means he may be deceived , and we may prevail against him , and be revenged on him . * But the Lord is with me as a strong warrior : therefore they that persecute me shall fall , and shall be weak : they shall be greatly confounded , because they have not understood the everlasting reproach , which never shall be effaced . * And thou , O Lord of hosts , prover of the just , who seest the reins and the heart : let me see , I beseech thee , thy vengeance on them : for to thee I have laid open my cause . * Sing ye to the Lord , praise the Lord : because he hath delivered the soul of the poor out of the hand of the wicked . * Cursed be the day wherein I was borne : let not the day in which my mother bore me , be blessed . * Cursed be the man that brought the tidings to my father , saying : A man child is born to thee : and made him greatly rejoice . * Let that man be as the cities that the Lord hath overthrown , and hath not repented : let him hear a cry in the morning , and howling at noontide : * Who slew me not from the womb , that my mother might have been my grave , and her womb an everlasting conception . * Why came I out of the womb , to see labour and sorrow , and that my days should be spent in confusion ?

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