¹ Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things. ² Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the chains that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD. ³ And it came to pass on the tomorrow, that Pashur brought forward Jeremiah out of the chains. Then said Jeremiah to him, The LORD has not called your name Pashur, but Magormissabib. ⁴ For so says the LORD, See, I will make you a terror to yourself, and to all your friends: and they will fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes will See it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will carry them captive into Babylon, and will kill them with the sword. ⁵ Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours of it, and all the precious things of it, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which will spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon. ⁶ And you, Pashur, and all that dwell in your house will go into captivity: and you will come to Babylon, and there you will die, and will be buried there, you, and all your friends, to who you have prophesied lies. ⁷ O LORD, you have deceived me, and I was deceived: you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocks me. ⁸ For since I spoke, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a rebuke to me, and a derision, daily. ⁹ Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not [stay]. ¹⁰ For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting , saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him. ¹¹ But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they will not prevail: they will be greatly ashamed; for they will not prosper: their everlasting confusion will never be forgotten. ¹² But, O LORD of hosts, that tests the righteous, and see the mind and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them: for to you have I opened my cause. ¹³ Sing to the LORD, praise you the LORD: for he has delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers. ¹⁴ Cursed be the day in which I was born: let not the day in which my mother bare me be blessed. ¹⁵ Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born to you; making him very glad. ¹⁶ And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide ; ¹⁷ Because he killed me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great [with me]. ¹⁸ why came I forward out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?