0 SAB Jeremiah 20

Gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes. 6:26

Trivia: Who broke Jeremiah's wooden yoke?

Jeremiah

CHAPTER 20

Pashur arrests Jeremiah

20:1-2

1 Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.

Pashur was the chief officer at God's house.

He heard about the prophecies of Jeremiah.

2 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.

He smote Jeremiah and put him in the stocks that were near God's house.

God changes Pashur's name to Magormissabib
20:3-6

3 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.

The next day, Pashur released Jeremiah, who said to him:

God says your name is no longer Pashur, but Magormissabib.

4For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: 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 slay them with the sword.

God also says that you'll become a terror to yourself and to you friends, who will all be killed by their enemies.

God will give Judah to the king of Babylon, who will kill them, and take the survivors to Babylon.

5 Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.

He will give all the valuable things in Jerusalem to Babylon.

6And 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 thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.

And you, your family, and your friends will be carried away to Babylon, where you will die.

Jeremiah curses the day he was born
20:7-18

7O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived; thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.

8 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.

9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.

10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

11 But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.

Jeremiah said to God,

Oh God, you have deceived me. [1]

Everyone is laughing at me.

12 But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.

13 Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.

You test righteous people [2] and see our kidneys.

Let me see you take vengeance on my enemies.

14Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

Cursed be the day I was born.

15Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.

Cursed be the man who told my father that I was born.

16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;

Let him die a violent death.

17Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.

18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Because he didn't kill me in the womb.

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