1 Now the priest, Immer’s son Pashhur, the chief officer of the Lord’s temple, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.
2 Pashhur struck the prophet Jeremiah and put him in prison at Upper Benjamin Gate that was in the Lord’s temple.
3 The next day when Pashhur took Jeremiah out of prison, Jeremiah said to him, “The Lord doesn’t call you Pashhur, but he calls you Terror Everywhere.
4 This is what the Lord says: I’m going to make you terrify yourself and all your friends. Their enemies’ swords will kill them, and you will see it with your own eyes. I will hand all of Judah over to the king of Babylon. He will take the people away as captives to Babylon or kill them with swords.
5 I will hand all the riches of this city over to their enemies. This will include all its produce, all its valuables, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah. Their enemies will loot them, take them away, and bring them to Babylon.
6 And you, Pashhur, and all those who live in your house will go into captivity. You will go to Babylon, and you will die there. You will be buried there together with all your friends to whom you prophesied these lies.”
7 O Lord, you have deceived me, and I was deceived.
8 Each time I speak, I have to cry out and shout,
9 I think to myself, “I can forget the Lord
10 I have heard many ⌞people⌟ whispering,
11 But the Lord is on my side like a terrifying warrior.
12 But the Lord of Armies examines the righteous.
13 Sing to the Lord! Praise the Lord!
14 Cursed is the day that I was born,
15 Cursed is the man who made my father very happy with the news
16 May that man be like the cities
17 If only he had killed me while I was in the womb.
18 Why did I come out of the womb?