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20 When Pashhur, the son of Immer the Priest, who was appointed Governor in the House of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things,
2 then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the Prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the House of the LORD.
3 And in the morning, Pashhur brought Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD has not called your name Pashhur, but Magor-Missabib.
4 For thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, I will make you to be a terror to yourself, and to all your friends. And they shall fall by the sword of their enemies. And your eyes shall behold it. And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babel. And he shall carry them captive into Babel and shall kill them with the sword.
5 ‘Moreover, I will deliver all the substance of this city, and all its labors, and all its precious things. And I will give all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hand of their enemies, who shall plunder them and take them away and carry them to Babel.
6 ‘And you, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house, shall go into captivity. And you shall come to Babel. And there you shall die and shall be buried there, you and all your friends to whom you have prophesied lies.’”
7 O LORD, You have persuaded me, and I am laid open. You are stronger than me and have prevailed. I am in derision daily. Everyone mocks me.
8 For when I speak, I cry out of wrong. And I proclaim desolation. Therefore, the Word of the LORD has become a reproach to me and a daily derision.
9 Then I said, “I will not make mention of Him or speak in His Name anymore.” But His Word was in my heart as a burning fire, shut up in my bones. And I was weary with restraining it. And I could not.
10 For I had heard the whispering of many, fear on every side, saying, “Declare! And we will declare it!” All my friends watched for my halting, saying, “It may be that he is deceived. So, we shall prevail against him. And we shall execute our vengeance upon him.”
11 But the LORD is with me like a mighty giant. Therefore, my persecutors shall be overthrown, and shall not prevail, and shall be greatly confounded. For they have done unwisely, and their everlasting shame shall never be forgotten.
12 But, O, LORD of Hosts! Who tries the righteous and sees the inner core and the heart! Let me see Your vengeance on them! For to You have I opened my cause.
13 Sing to the LORD! Praise the LORD! For He has delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of the wicked.
14 Curse the day on which I was born and do not let the day on which my mother bore me be blessed!
15 Curse the man who showed my father, saying, “A male child is born to you,” and comforted him.
16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD has overturned without relent. And let him hear the cry in the morning and the shouting at noon,
17 because he did not kill me in the womb, so that my mother might have been my grave, or her womb a perpetual conception.
18 How is it that I came forth from the womb to see labor and sorrow, so that my days should be consumed with shame?
21 The Word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD when king Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur, the son of Melchiah and Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah the Priest, saying,
2 “Please inquire of the LORD for us, for Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel, makes war against us. Perhaps the LORD will deal with us according to all His wondrous works, so that he may withdraw from us.”
3 Then Jeremiah said, “Thus shall you say to Zedekiah,
4 ‘Thus says the LORD God of Israel: “Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babel, and against the Chaldeans, who besiege you outside the walls. And I will assemble them into the midst of this city.
5 “And I, myself, will fight against you with an outstretched Hand, and with a mighty Arm, in anger and in wrath and in great indignation.
6 “And I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast. They shall die of a great pestilence.
7 “And after this,” says the LORD, “I will deliver Zedekiah, the king of Judah, and his servants and the people and such as are left in this city, from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their lives. And he shall strike them with the edge of the sword. He shall neither spare them nor have pity nor compassion.”’
8 “And to this people you shall say, ‘Thus says the LORD: “Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.
9 ‘He who stays in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence. But he who goes out and falls before the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall live. And his life shall be as plunder to him.
10 ‘For I have set My Face against this city, for calamity and not for good,’ says the LORD, ‘It shall be given into the hand of the king of Babel, and he shall burn it with fire.’”
11 “And say to the House of the king of Judah, ‘Hear the Word of the LORD,
12 O House of David! Thus says the LORD: “Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver the oppressed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest My wrath go out like fire and burn, so that no one can quench it because of the wickedness of your works.
13 “Behold, I come against you, O inhabitant of the valley, rock of the plain,” says the LORD, “which says, ‘Who shall come down against us?’ Or ‘Who shall enter into our habitations?’
14 “But I will visit you according to the fruit of your works,” says the LORD, “and I will kindle a fire in its forest. And it shall devour all around it.”’”
4 Therefore, I charge you before God and before the Lord Jesus Christ, Who shall judge the living and dead at His appearing and in His Kingdom:
2 Preach the Word! Be ready, in season and out of season. Convict, rebuke, encourage, with all longsuffering and teaching.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine. But having itching ears, they shall gather a heap of teachers according to their own lusts
4 and shall turn their ears from the truth and shall be given to fables.
5 But you, be sober in all things. Suffer adversity. Do the work of an evangelist. Carry out your ministry fully.
6 For I am already being offered. And the time of my departing is at hand.
7 I have fought the good fight and have finished my course. I have kept the faith.
8 Hereafter, the crown of righteousness - which the Lord, the Righteous Judge, shall give me on that Day - is laid up for me. And not only to me but also to all those who love His appearing.
9 Hurry to come to me at once!
10 For Demas has forsaken me, and has embraced this present world, and has departed to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia; Titus to Dalmatia.
11 Only Luke is with me. Take Mark and bring him with you. For he is useful to me for ministry.
12 And I have sent Tychicus to Ephesus.
13 When you come, bring the cloak with you which I left with Carpus at Troas, and the books (especially the parchments).
14 Alexander, the coppersmith, has done me much evil. May the Lord reward him according to his works.
15 You beware of him also. For he greatly opposes our preaching.
16 At my first defense, no one stood by me. But, all deserted me. May it not be counted against them.
17 But the Lord assisted me and strengthened me; so that by me the preaching might be fully believed, and that all the Gentiles should hear. And I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
18 And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work and will preserve me for His Heavenly Kingdom. To Him be praise for ever and ever! Amen.
19 Greet Prisca and Aquila and the household of Onesiphorus.
20 Erastus stayed at Corinth. I left Trophimus at Miletus, sick.
21 Hurry to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brothers.
22 The Lord Jesus Christ be with your Spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.
(The second Epistle written from Rome to Timothy, the first Bishop elected of the Church of Ephesus, when Paul was presented the second time before the Emperor Nero)
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