Jeremiah 20:3-5
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
3 The next morning, after Pashhur had released Jeremiah from the stocks, the prophet said to him:(A) “Instead of Pashhur, the Lord names you ‘Terror on every side.’[a] 4 For thus says the Lord: Indeed, I will hand you over to terror, you and all your friends. Your own eyes shall see them fall by the sword of their enemies. All Judah I will hand over to the power of the king of Babylon,[b] who shall take them captive to Babylon or strike them down with the sword. 5 All the wealth of this city, all its resources and its valuables, all the treasures of the kings of Judah, I will hand over to their enemies, who will plunder it and carry it away to Babylon.(B)
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- 20:3 Terror on every side: the name indicates the siege that will beset Jerusalem.
- 20:4 Babylon: mentioned here for the first time in Jeremiah as the land of exile. The prophecy dates from after 605 B.C., when Nebuchadnezzar defeated Egypt and made the Babylonian (Chaldean) empire dominant in Syria and Palestine.
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