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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Jeremiah 20 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/20.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jeremiah/20-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CEV</a> > Jeremiah 20</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/19.htm" title="Jeremiah 19">◄</a> Jeremiah 20 <a href="../jeremiah/21.htm" title="Jeremiah 21">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">Pashhur Arrests Jeremiah</h3><p class="par"><span class="v24_20_1"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.20.1" class="v24_20_1">1</span>Pashhur son of Immer was a priest and the chief of temple security. He heard what I had said, </span><span class="v24_20_2"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.20.2" class="v24_20_2">2</span>and so he hit me.<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.20.2!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> Then he had me arrested and put in chains<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.20.2!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> at the Benjamin Gate in the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s temple.<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.20.2!f.3" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v24_20_3"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.20.3" class="v24_20_3">3</span>The next day, when Pashhur let me go free, I told him that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had said:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v24_20_3">No longer will I call you Pashhur. Instead, I will call you Afraid-of-Everything.<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.20.3!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v24_20_4"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.20.4" class="v24_20_4">4</span>You will be afraid, and you will bring fear to your friends as well. You will see enemies kill them in battle. Then I will let the king of Babylonia take everyone in Judah prisoner, killing some and dragging the rest away to Babylonia. </span><span class="v24_20_5"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.20.5" class="v24_20_5">5</span>He will clean out the royal treasury and take everything else of value from Jerusalem.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v24_20_6"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.20.6" class="v24_20_6">6</span>Pashhur, you are guilty of telling lies and claiming they were messages from me. That's why I will let the Babylonians take you, your family, and your friends as prisoners to Babylonia, where you will all die and be buried.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Jeremiah Complains to the <span class="nd">Lord</span></h3><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_7"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.20.7" class="v24_20_7">7</span>You tricked me, <span class="nd">Lord</span>,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_7">and I was really fooled.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_7">You are stronger than I am,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_7">and you have defeated me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_7">People never stop sneering</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_7">and insulting me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_8"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.20.8" class="v24_20_8">8</span>You have let me announce</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_8">only injustice and death.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_8">Your message has brought me</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_8">nothing but insults</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_8">and trouble.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_9"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.20.9" class="v24_20_9">9</span>Sometimes I tell myself</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_9">not to think about you, <span class="nd">Lord</span>,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_9">or even mention your name.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_9">But your message burns</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_9">in my heart and bones,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_9">and I cannot keep silent.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_10"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.20.10" class="v24_20_10">10</span>I heard the crowds whisper,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_10">“Everyone is afraid.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_10">Now's our chance</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_10">to accuse Jeremiah!”</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_10">All of my so-called friends</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_10">are just waiting</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_10">for me to make a mistake.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_10">They say, “Maybe Jeremiah</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_10">can be tricked.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_10">Then we can overpower him</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_10">and get even at last.”</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_11"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.20.11" class="v24_20_11">11</span>But you, <span class="nd">Lord</span>,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_11">are a mighty soldier,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_11">standing at my side.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_11">Those troublemakers</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_11">will fall down and fail—</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_11">terribly embarrassed,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_11">forever ashamed.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_12"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.20.12" class="v24_20_12">12</span><span class="nd">Lord</span> All-Powerful,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_12">you test those who do right,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_12">and you know every heart</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_12">and mind.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_12">I have told you my complaints,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_12">so let me watch you</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_12">take revenge on my enemies.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_13"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.20.13" class="v24_20_13">13</span>I sing praises to you, <span class="nd">Lord</span>.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_13">You rescue the oppressed</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_13">from the wicked.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_14"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.20.14" class="v24_20_14">14</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.20.14!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Put a curse on the day I was born!</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_14">Don't bless that day.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_15"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.20.15" class="v24_20_15">15</span>Put a curse on the man</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_15">who told my father, “Good news!</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_15">You have a son.”</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_16"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.20.16" class="v24_20_16">16</span>May that man be like the towns</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_16">you destroyed without pity.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_16">Let him hear shouts of alarm</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_16">in the morning</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_16">and battle cries at noon.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_17"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.20.17" class="v24_20_17">17</span>He deserves to die</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_17">for not killing me</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_17">before I was born.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_17">Then my mother's body</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_17">would have been my grave.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_18"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.20.18" class="v24_20_18">18</span>Why did I have to be born?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_18">Was it just to suffer</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_18">and die in shame?</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">20.2 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">hit me: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “beat me up” or “had me beaten up.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">20.2 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">in chains: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “in the stocks” (a wooden frame with holes for the hands, neck, or feet of a prisoner) or “in a prison cell.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">20.2 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">the Benjamin Gate in the <char style="nd">Lord</char>'s temple: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew text has “the upper Benjamin Gate in the temple”; the lower Benjamin Gate may have been the city gate of that name.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">20.3 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Afraid-of-Everything: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew “Magor-Missabib.”</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second 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