Jeremiah 20:1–6

Pashhur Persecutes Jeremiah

¹When Pashhur the priest, the son of ^aImmer, who was ^bchief officer in the house of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things,

²Pashhur had Jeremiah the prophet ^abeaten and put him in the ^bstocks that were at the upper ^cBenjamin Gate, which was by the house of the Lord.

³On the next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “Pashhur is not the name the Lord has ^acalled you, but rather ^1bMagor-missabib.

⁴“For thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, I am going to make you a ^aterror to yourself and to all your friends; and while ^byour eyes look on, they will fall by the sword of their enemies. So I will ^cgive over all Judah to the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will carry them away as ^dexiles to Babylon and will slay them with the sword.

⁵‘I will also give over all the ^awealth of this city, all its produce and all its costly things; even all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give over to the ^bhand of their enemies, and they will plunder them, take them away and bring them to Babylon.

⁶‘And you, ^aPashhur, and all who live in your house will go into captivity; and you will enter Babylon, and there you will die and there you will be buried, you and all your ^bfriends to whom you have ^cfalsely prophesied.’ ”