Jeremiah:20

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* And Pashur [the ] priest , the son of Immer , who presided as prince in the house of the LORD , heard Jeremiah who prophesied these things . * Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that [were ] at the gate of Benjamin on the high [place ], which [is ] in the house of the LORD . * And it came to pass on the morrow that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks . Then Jeremiah said unto him : The LORD has not called thy name Pashur , but Magormissabib . * For thus hath the LORD said , Behold , I will make thee a terror to thyself and to all those that love thee well ; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies , and thine eyes shall behold [it ]; and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon and he shall carry them captive into Babylon , and shall smite them with the sword . * Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city and all its labours and all its precious things and all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give into the hand of their enemies , who shall spoil them and take them and carry them to Babylon . * And thou , Pashur , and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity ; and thou shalt come to Babylon , and there thou shalt die and shalt be buried there , thou and all those who love thee well , unto whom thou hast prophesied with lies . * O LORD , thou hast seduced me , and I was seduced ; thou wert stronger than I and hast overcome me ; I am in derision daily ; every one mocks me . * For since I spoke [out ], I raised my voice crying , Violence and destruction ; because the word of the LORD has been a reproach unto me and a derision , daily . * And I said , I will not make mention of him , nor speak any more in his name . But he was in my heart as a burning fire [and ] within my bones ; I tried to forbear , and I could not . * For I heard the murmuring of many , fear on every side , Report , and we will report it . All my friends watched to see if I would stumble . Peradventure he will deceive himself , they said , and we shall prevail against him , and we shall take our revenge on him . * But the LORD [is ] with me as a powerful giant ; therefore my persecutors shall stumble , and they shall not prevail : they shall be greatly ashamed ; for they shall not prosper ; they shall have everlasting confusion which shall never be forgotten . * O LORD of the hosts , who examines that which is just , who seest the kidneys and the heart , let me see thy vengeance on them ; for unto thee I have opened my cause . * Sing unto the LORD , praise ye the LORD ; for he has delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers . * Cursed [be ] the day in which I was born ; do not let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed . * Cursed [be ] the man who brought tidings to my father , saying , A man child is born unto thee ; making him very glad . * And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew and did not repent ; and let him hear the cry in the morning and the shouting at noontide * because he did not slay me in the womb , and my mother would have been my grave , and her womb perpetual conception . * Why did I come forth out of the womb ? To see labour and sorrow that my days should be consumed with shame ?:

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