2 GLT So Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet and then placed him in the stocks that were at the Upper Gate of Benjamin in Yahweh’ s house. BSB BSB: he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
3 GLT It happened on the next day that Pashhur brought Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him,“Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but you are Magor Missabib. BSB BSB: The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD does not call you Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.
4 GLT For Yahweh says this,‘Look, I will make you an object of horror, you and all of your loved ones, for they will fall by the sword of their enemies and your eyes will see it. I will give all of Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon. He will make them captives in Babylon or attack them with the sword. BSB BSB: For this is what the LORD says: ‘I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. 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.
5 GLT I will give him all the wealth of this city and all of its riches, all of its precious items and all the treasures of the kings of Judah. I will place these things in the hand of your enemies, and they will seize them. They will take them and bring them to Babylon. BSB BSB: 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.
6 GLT But you, Pashhur, and all the inhabitants of your house will go into captivity. You will go to Babylon and die there. You and all of your loved ones to whom you prophesied deceitful things will be buried there.’” BSB BSB: 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.’”
7 GLT “Yahweh, you deceived me, and I was deceived. You are stronger than I, and you overpowered me. I have become a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me. BSB BSB: You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.
8 GLT For whenever I have spoken, I have called out and proclaimed,‘Violence and destruction.’ Then Yahweh’ s word has become for me reproach and mocking every day. BSB BSB: For whenever I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and destruction. For the word of the LORD has become to me a reproach and derision all day long.
9 GLT If I say,‘I will not think about Yahweh anymore. I will not speak any longer in his name.’ Then it is like a consuming fire in my heart, held within my bones. So I struggle to contain it but I cannot. BSB BSB: If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.
10 GLT I have heard rumors of terror from many people all around.‘Report! We must report it!’ Those who are close to me watch to see if I will fall.‘Perhaps he can be tricked. If so, we can overpower him and take our revenge on him.’ BSB BSB: For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him.”
11 GLT But Yahweh is with me like a powerful warrior, so the ones pursuing me will stagger. They will not defeat me. They will be greatly ashamed, because they will not succeed. They will have unending shame, it will never be forgotten. BSB BSB: But the LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly put to shame, with an everlasting disgrace that will never be forgotten.
12 GLT But Yahweh of hosts, you examine the righteous and see the mind and the heart. Let me see your vengeance on them for I have committed my cause to you. BSB BSB: O LORD of Hosts, who examines the righteous, who sees the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.
13 GLT Sing to Yahweh! Praise Yahweh! For he has rescued the lives of those who are oppressed from the hand of evildoers. BSB BSB: Sing to the LORD! Praise the LORD! For He rescues the life of the needy from the hands of evildoers.
14 GLT Let the day when I was born be cursed. Do not let the day that my mother bore me be blessed. BSB BSB: Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.
15 GLT Let the man who informed my father be cursed, the one who said,‘A male child has been born to you,’ causing great joy. BSB BSB: Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, “A son is born to you,” bringing him great joy.
16 GLT Let that man be like the cities that Yahweh overthrew and he did not have compassion on them. Let him hear a cry for help in the dawn, a battle cry at noontime, BSB BSB: May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. May he hear an outcry in the morning and a battle cry at noon,
17 GLT because he did not kill me in the womb, making my mother to be my tomb, a womb that was pregnant forever. BSB BSB: because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.
18 GLT Why is it that I came out from the womb to see troubles and agony, so that my days are filled with shame?” BSB BSB: Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?
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