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They will fall by the sword of their enemies before your very eyes. And I will hand Judah over to the king of Babylon, and he will carry them away to Babylon and put them to the sword. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/20-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I will give away all the wealth of this city—all its products and valuables, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah—to their enemies. They will plunder them, seize them, and carry them off to Babylon. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/20-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house, will go into captivity. You will go to Babylon, and there you will die and be buried—you and all your friends to whom you have prophesied these lies.’<span class="thinq"> </span>” <A name="8"></a><p class="hdg">Jeremiah’s Complaint<p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/20-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. <p class="indent2"> You have overcome me and prevailed. <p class="indent1"> I am a laughingstock all day long; <p class="indent2"> everyone mocks me. <A name="9"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/20-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For whenever I speak, I cry out; <p class="indent2"> I proclaim violence and destruction. <p class="indent1"> For the word of the LORD has become to me <p class="indent2"> a reproach and derision all day long. <A name="10"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/20-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>If I say, “I will not mention Him <p class="indent2"> or speak any more in His name,” <p class="indent1"> His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, <p class="indent2"> shut up in my bones, <p class="indent1"> and I become weary of holding it in, <p class="indent2"> and I cannot prevail. <A name="11"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/20-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For I have heard the whispering of many: <p class="indent2">“Terror is on every side! <p class="indent2"> Report him; let us report him!” <p class="indent1"> All my trusted friends <p class="indent2"> watch for my fall: <p class="indent1">“Perhaps he will be deceived <p class="indent2"> so that we may prevail against him <p class="indent2"> and take our vengeance upon him.” <A name="12"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/20-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>But the LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior. <p class="indent2"> Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. <p class="indent1"> Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly put to shame, <p class="indent2"> with an everlasting disgrace that will never be forgotten. <A name="13"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/20-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>O LORD of Hosts, who examines the righteous, <p class="indent2"> who sees the heart<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> and mind, <p class="indent1"> let me see Your vengeance upon them, <p class="indent2"> for to You I have committed my cause. <A name="14"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/20-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Sing to the LORD! <p class="indent2"> Praise the LORD! <p class="indent1"> For He rescues the life of the needy <p class="indent2"> from the hands of evildoers. <A name="15"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/20-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Cursed be the day I was born! <p class="indent2"> May the day my mother bore me never be blessed. <A name="16"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/20-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, <p class="indent2"> saying, “A son is born to you,” <p class="indent2"> bringing him great joy. <A name="17"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/20-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>May that man be like the cities <p class="indent2"> that the LORD overthrew without compassion. <p class="indent1"> May he hear an outcry in the morning <p class="indent2"> and a battle cry at noon, <A name="18"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/20-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>because he did not kill me in the womb <p class="indent2"> so that my mother might have been my grave, <p class="indent2"> and her womb forever enlarged. <p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/20-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Why did I come out of the womb <p class="indent2"> to see only trouble and sorrow, <p class="indent2"> and to end my days in shame?</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <i>Magor-missabib</i><span class="thin"> </span> means <i>terror on every side</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>the man who lives in terror</i><span class="thin"> </span>.<br><span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Hebrew <i>kidneys</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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