Jeremiah 20:6-13
English Standard Version
6 And you, (A)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, (B)to whom you have prophesied falsely.”
7 O Lord, (C)you have deceived me,
and I was deceived;
(D)you are stronger than I,
and you have prevailed.
(E)I have become a laughingstock all the day;
everyone mocks me.
8 For whenever I speak, I cry out,
I shout, (F)“Violence and destruction!”
For (G)the word of the Lord has become for me
(H)a reproach and (I)derision all day long.
9 If I say, “I will not mention him,
or speak any more in his name,”
(J)there is in my heart as it were a burning fire
shut up in my bones,
and (K)I am weary with holding it in,
and I cannot.
10 (L)For I hear many whispering.
(M)Terror is on every side!
“Denounce him! (N)Let us denounce him!”
say all my (O)close friends,
(P)watching for (Q)my fall.
“Perhaps he will be deceived;
then (R)we can overcome him
and take our revenge on him.”
11 But (S)the Lord is with me as a dread warrior;
therefore my persecutors will stumble;
(T)they will not overcome me.
(U)They will be greatly shamed,
for they will not succeed.
Their (V)eternal dishonor
will never be forgotten.
12 O Lord of hosts, who tests the righteous,
(W)who sees the heart and the mind,[a]
let me see your vengeance upon them,
for to you have I committed my cause.
13 (X)Sing to the Lord;
praise the Lord!
For he has delivered the life of the needy
from the hand of evildoers.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 20:12 Hebrew kidneys
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