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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 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><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="../">GNT</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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">Jeremiah's Conflict with Pashhur the Priest</h3><p class="par"><span class="v24_20_1"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.20.1" class="v24_20_1">1</span>When the priest Pashhur son of Immer, who was the chief officer of the Temple, heard me proclaim these things, </span><span class="v24_20_2"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.20.2" class="v24_20_2">2</span>he had me beaten and placed in chains near the upper Benjamin Gate in the Temple. </span><span class="v24_20_3"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.20.3" class="v24_20_3">3</span>The next morning, after Pashhur had released me from the chains, I said to him, “The <span class="nd">Lord</span> did not name you Pashhur. The name he has given you is ‘Terror Everywhere.’ </span><span class="v24_20_4"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.20.4" class="v24_20_4">4</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> himself has said, ‘I am going to make you a terror to yourself and to your friends, and you will see them all killed by the swords of their enemies. I am going to put all the people of Judah under the power of the king of Babylonia; he will take some away as prisoners to his country and put others to death. </span><span class="v24_20_5"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.20.5" class="v24_20_5">5</span>I will also let their enemies plunder all the wealth of this city and seize all its possessions and property, even the treasures of the kings of Judah, and carry everything off to Babylonia. </span><span class="v24_20_6"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.20.6" class="v24_20_6">6</span>As for you, Pashhur, you and all your family will also be captured and taken off to Babylonia. There you will die and be buried, along with all your friends to whom you have told so many lies.’”</span></p><h3 class="s">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><span class="nd">Lord</span>, you have deceived me,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_7">and I was deceived.</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 overpowered me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_7">Everyone makes fun of me;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_7">they laugh at me all day long.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_8"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.20.8" class="v24_20_8">8</span>Whenever I speak, I have to cry out</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_8">and shout, “Violence! Destruction!”</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_8"><span class="nd">Lord</span>, I am ridiculed and scorned all the time</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_8">because I proclaim your message.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_9"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.20.9" class="v24_20_9">9</span>But when I say, “I will forget the <span class="nd">Lord</span></span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_9">and no longer speak in his name,”</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_9">then your message is like a fire</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_9">burning deep within me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_9">I try my best to hold it in,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_9">but can no longer keep it back.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_10"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.20.10" class="v24_20_10">10</span>I hear everybody whispering,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_10">“Terror is everywhere!</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_10">So let's report him to the authorities!”</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_10">Even my close friends wait for my downfall.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_10">“Perhaps he can be tricked,” they say;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_10">“then we can catch him and get revenge.”</span></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>, are on my side, strong and mighty,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_11">and those who persecute me will fail.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_11">They will be disgraced forever,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_11">because they cannot succeed.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_11">Their disgrace will never be forgotten.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_12"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.20.12" class="v24_20_12">12</span>But, Almighty <span class="nd">Lord</span>, you test people justly;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_12">you know what is in their hearts and minds.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_12">So let me see you take revenge on my enemies,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_12">for I have placed my cause in your hands.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_13"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.20.13" class="v24_20_13">13</span>Sing to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>!</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_13">Praise the <span class="nd">Lord</span>!</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_13">He rescues the oppressed from the power of evil people.</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> Curse the day I was born!</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_14">Forget the day my mother gave me birth!</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_15"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.20.15" class="v24_20_15">15</span>Curse the one who made my father glad</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_15">by bringing him the news,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_15">“It's a boy! 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 he be like those cities</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_16">that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> destroyed without mercy.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_16">May he hear cries of pain in the morning</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_16">and the battle alarm at noon,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_17"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.20.17" class="v24_20_17">17</span>for not killing me before I was born.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_20_17">Then my mother's womb 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 was I born?</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_18">Was it only to have trouble and sorrow,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_20_18">to end my life in disgrace?</span></p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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