Jeremiah 20

English Standard Version

Jeremiah Persecuted by Pashhur

20 Now ^(A)Pashhur the priest, the son of ^(B)Immer, who was ^(C)chief officer in the house of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. ²Then ^(D)Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet, and put him ^(E)in the stocks that were in the upper ^(F)Benjamin Gate of the house of the Lord. ³The next day, when ^(G)Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The Lord does not call your name ^(H)Pashhur, but Terror on Every Side. ⁴For thus says the Lord: Behold, I will make you ^(I)a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They shall fall by the sword of their enemies while you look on. And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon. He shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall strike them down with the sword. ⁵Moreover, ^(J)I will give all the wealth of the city, all its gains, all its ^(K)prized belongings, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hand of their enemies, who shall plunder them and seize them and carry them to Babylon. ⁶And you, ^(L)Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house, shall go into captivity. To Babylon you shall go, and there you shall die, and there you shall be buried, you and all your friends, ^(M)to whom you have prophesied falsely.”

⁷O Lord, ^(N)you have deceived me,
    and I was deceived;
^(O)you are stronger than I,
    and you have prevailed.
^(P)I have become a laughingstock all the day;
    everyone mocks me.
⁸For whenever I speak, I cry out,
    I shout, ^(Q)“Violence and destruction!”
For ^(R)the word of the Lord has become for me
    ^(S)a reproach and ^(T)derision all day long.
⁹If I say, “I will not mention him,
    or speak any more in his name,”
^(U)there is in my heart as it were a burning fire
    shut up in my bones,
and ^(V)I am weary with holding it in,
    and I cannot.
¹⁰^(W)For I hear many whispering.
    ^(X)Terror is on every side!
“Denounce him! ^(Y)Let us denounce him!”
    say all my ^(Z)close friends,
    ^(AA)watching for ^(AB)my fall.
“Perhaps he will be deceived;
    then ^(AC)we can overcome him
    and take our revenge on him.”
¹¹But ^(AD)the Lord is with me as a dread warrior;
    therefore my persecutors will stumble;
    ^(AE)they will not overcome me.
^(AF)They will be greatly shamed,
    for they will not succeed.
Their ^(AG)eternal dishonor
    will never be forgotten.
¹²O Lord of hosts, who tests the righteous,
    ^(AH)who sees the heart and the mind,^[a]
let me see your vengeance upon them,
    for to you have I committed my cause.

¹³^(AI)Sing to the Lord;
praise the Lord!
For he has delivered the life of the needy
from the hand of evildoers.

¹⁴^(AJ)Cursed be the day
    on which I was born!
The day when my mother bore me,
    let it not be blessed!
¹⁵Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father,
“A son is born to you,”
    ^(AK)making him very glad.
¹⁶Let that man be like ^(AL)the cities
    that the Lord overthrew without pity;
^(AM)let him hear a cry in the morning
    and an alarm at noon,
¹⁷^(AN)because he did not kill me in the womb;
    so my mother would have been my grave,
    and her womb forever great.
¹⁸^(AO)Why did I come out from the womb
    ^(AP)to see toil and sorrow,
    and spend my days in shame?

Footnotes

Jeremiah 20:12 Hebrew kidneys

John 14

English Standard Version

I Am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life

14 ^(A)“Let not your hearts be troubled. ^(B)Believe in God;^[a] believe also in me. ²In ^(C)my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that ^(D)I go to prepare a place for you?^[b] ³And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you ^(E)to myself, that ^(F)where I am you may be also. ⁴And you know the way to where I am going.”^[c] ⁵^(G)Thomas said to him, “Lord, ^(H)we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” ⁶Jesus said to him, “I am ^(I)the way, and ^(J)the truth, and ^(K)the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. ⁷^(L)If you had known me, you would have ^(M)known my Father also.^[d] From now on you do know him and ^(N)have seen him.”

⁸^(O)Philip said to him, “Lord, ^(P)show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” ⁹Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? ^(Q)Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰Do you not believe that ^(R)I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you ^(S)I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. ¹¹Believe me that ^(T)I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else ^(U)believe on account of the works themselves.

¹²“Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(V)whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I ^(W)am going to the Father. ¹³^(X)Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that ^(Y)the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴^(Z)If you ask me^[e] anything in my name, I will do it.

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

¹⁵^(AA)“If you love me, you will ^(AB)keep my commandments. ¹⁶And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another ^(AC)Helper,^[f] to be with you forever, ¹⁷even ^(AD)the Spirit of truth, ^(AE)whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and ^(AF)will be^[g] in you.

¹⁸“I will not leave you as orphans; ^(AG)I will come to you. ¹⁹^(AH)Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but ^(AI)you will see me. ^(AJ)Because I live, you also will live. ²⁰^(AK)In that day you will know that ^(AL)I am in my Father, and ^(AM)you in me, and ^(AN)I in you. ²¹^(AO)Whoever has my commandments and ^(AP)keeps them, he it is who loves me. And ^(AQ)he who loves me ^(AR)will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and ^(AS)manifest myself to him.” ²²^(AT)Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it ^(AU)that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” ²³Jesus answered him, ^(AV)“If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and ^(AW)we will come to him and ^(AX)make our home with him. ²⁴Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And ^(AY)the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.

²⁵“These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. ²⁶But the ^(AZ)Helper, the Holy Spirit, ^(BA)whom the Father will send in my name, ^(BB)he will teach you all things and ^(BC)bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. ²⁷^(BD)Peace I leave with you; ^(BE)my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. ^(BF)Let not your hearts be troubled, neither ^(BG)let them be afraid. ²⁸^(BH)You heard me say to you, ^(BI)‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I ^(BJ)am going to the Father, for ^(BK)the Father is greater than I. ²⁹And ^(BL)now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe. ³⁰I will no longer talk much with you, for ^(BM)the ruler of this world is coming. ^(BN)He has no claim on me, ³¹but I do ^(BO)as the Father has commanded me, ^(BP)so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.

Footnotes

John 14:1 Or You believe in God
John 14:2 Or In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you
John 14:4 Some manuscripts Where I am going you know, and the way you know
John 14:7 Or If you know me, you will know my Father also, or If you have known me, you will know my Father also
John 14:14 Some manuscripts omit me
John 14:16 Or Advocate, or Counselor; also 14:26; 15:26; 16:7
John 14:17 Some manuscripts and is