# Jeremiah 20

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/jeremiah/20

Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. Now the priest Pashhur son of Immer, who was chief officer in the house of Yahweh, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.
2. Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin in the house of Yahweh.
3. The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “Yahweh does not call you Pashhur, but Terror on Every Side.
4. For this is what Yahweh says: Look, I am making you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of their enemies while you watch. I will hand all Judah over to the king of Babylon, and he will carry them into exile to Babylon and strike them down with the sword.
5. I will hand over all the wealth of this city, all the fruit of its labor, all its 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. And you, Pashhur, and everyone who lives in your house will go into captivity. You will go to Babylon, and there you will die, and there you will be buried, you and all your friends to whom you have prophesied lies.”
7. Yahweh, you deceived me, and I was deceived; you were stronger than I, and you prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.
8. For whenever I speak, I cry out, I shout, “Violence and destruction!” For the word of Yahweh has become for me a reproach and a mockery all day long.
9. But if I say, “I will not mention him or speak in his name anymore,” then it becomes like a burning fire in my heart, shut up in my bones. I am worn out holding it in, and I cannot.
10. For I hear many whispering, “Terror on every side! Denounce him! Let us denounce him!” All my close friends are watching for me to stumble: “Perhaps he will be deceived; then we will overpower him and take our revenge on him.”
11. But Yahweh is with me like a mighty warrior; therefore my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. They will be utterly put to shame, because they have not succeeded; their everlasting disgrace will never be forgotten.
12. Yahweh of Armies, you who test the righteous and see the heart and mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for to you I have laid out my case.
13. Sing to Yahweh! Praise Yahweh! For he has rescued the life of the needy from the hand of evildoers.
14. Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother gave birth to me not be blessed!
15. Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father, “A son is born to you, a boy!” and made him very glad.
16. May that man be like the cities Yahweh overthrew without relenting; may he hear a cry in the morning and a battle shout at noon,
17. because he did not kill me in the womb, so that my mother would have been my grave, her womb pregnant forever.
18. Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?

## Nearby chapters

[Jeremiah 19](https://www.lumin.faith/read/jeremiah/19.md)
[Jeremiah 21](https://www.lumin.faith/read/jeremiah/21.md)

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