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When Pashhur the priest, the son of ^(C1)Immer, who was ^(C2)chief overseer in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things,

Pashhur had Jeremiah the prophet ^(C1)beaten and put him in the ^(C2)stocks that were at the upper ^(C3)Benjamin Gate, which was by the house of the LORD.

Then on the next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, "Pashhur is not the name the LORD has ^(C1)called you, but rather ^(F1)(C2)Magor-missabib.

"For this is what the LORD says: 'Behold, I am going to make you a ^(C1)horror to yourself and to all your friends; and while ^(C2)your eyes look on, they will fall by the sword of their enemies. So I will ^(C3)hand all Judah over to the king of Babylon, and he will take them away as ^(C4)exiles to Babylon and will kill them with the sword.

+'I will also give all the ^(C1)wealth of this city, all its produce and all its valuable things—even all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will ^(C2)hand over to their enemies, and they will plunder them, take them away, and bring them to Babylon.

+'And you, ^(C1)Pashhur, and all who live in your house will go into captivity; and you will enter Babylon, and there you will die and there you will be buried, you and all your ^(C2)friends to whom you have ^(C3)falsely prophesied.'"

LORD, You persuaded me and I let myself be persuaded; You have ^(C1)overcome me and prevailed. I have become a ^(C2)laughingstock all day long; Everyone ^(C3)mocks me.

For each time I speak, I cry aloud; I ^(C1)proclaim violence and destruction, Because for me the ^(C2)word of the LORD has ^(F1)resulted In taunting and derision all day long.

But if I say, "I will not ^(C1)remember Him Nor speak anymore in His name," Then in ^(C2)my heart it becomes like a burning fire Shut up in my bones; And I am tired of holding it in, And ^(C3)I cannot endure it.

For ^(C1)I have heard the whispering of many, "^(C2)Terror on every side! ^(C3)Denounce him; let's denounce him!" ^(F1)All my ^(C4)trusted friends, Watching for my fall, say: "Perhaps he will be persuaded, so that we may ^(C5)prevail against him And take our revenge on him."

But the ^(C1)LORD is with me like a powerful champion; Therefore my ^(C2)persecutors will stumble and not prevail. They will be put to great shame because they have ^(F1)failed, An ^(C3)everlasting disgrace that will not be forgotten.

Yet, LORD of armies, who ^(C1)tests the righteous, Who sees the ^(F1)mind and the heart; Let me ^(C2)see Your vengeance on them, For ^(C3)to You I have disclosed my cause.

^(C1)Sing to the LORD, praise the LORD! For He has ^(C2)saved the soul of the needy one From the hand of evildoers.

Cursed be the ^(C1)day when I was born; May the day when my mother gave birth to me not be blessed!

Cursed be the man who brought the news To my father, saying, "A ^(F1)(C1)boy has been born to you!" And made him very happy.

But may that man be like the cities Which the LORD ^(C1)overthrew without ^(F1)relenting, And may he hear an ^(C2)outcry in the morning And ^(F2)an alarm for war at noon;

Because he did not ^(C1)kill me ^(F1)before birth, So that my mother would have been my grave, And her womb forever pregnant.

Why did I ever come out of the womb To ^(C1)look at trouble and sorrow, So that my ^(C2)days have been spent in ^(C3)shame?

The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of ^(C1)Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

"Go to the house of the ^(C1)Rechabites and speak to them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the ^(C2)chambers, and give them wine to drink."

So I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, son of Habazziniah, and his brothers and all his sons, and all the household of the Rechabites,

and I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the ^(C1)man of God, which was next to the chamber of the officials, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, ^(C2)the doorkeeper.

Then I set before the ^(F1)men of the house of the Rechabites pitchers full of wine, and cups; and I said to them, "^(C1)Drink wine!"

But they said, "We will not drink wine, for ^(C1)Jonadab the son of ^(C2)Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, 'You shall ^(C3)not drink wine, you or your sons, forever.

+'You shall not build a house, and you shall not sow seed nor plant a vineyard, nor ^(F1)own one; but you shall live in ^(C1)tents all your days, so that you may live ^(C2)many days ^(F2)in the land where you ^(C3)live as strangers.'

"And we have ^(C1)obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, not to drink wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters,

nor to build ourselves houses to live in; and we ^(C1)do not have a vineyard, a field, or seed.

"But we have ^(C1)lived only in tents, and have obeyed and have done according to all that our father ^(C2)Jonadab commanded us.

"However, when ^(C1)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against the land, we said, 'Come, and let's ^(C2)go to Jerusalem away from the army of the Chaldeans and the army of the Arameans.' So we have lived in Jerusalem."

Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,

"This is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel says: 'Go and say to the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, "^(C1)Will you not accept instruction by listening to My words?" declares the LORD.

"The ^(C1)words of Jonadab the son of Rechab have been followed, which he commanded his sons: not to drink wine. And they do not drink wine to this day, for they have obeyed their father's command. But I have spoken to you ^(C2)again and again, yet you have ^(C3)not listened to Me.

"Also I have sent to you all My ^(C1)servants the prophets, sending them again and again, saying: '^(C2)Turn now every person from his evil way and amend your deeds, and ^(C3)do not follow other gods to worship them. Then you will ^(C4)live in the land which I have given to you and to your forefathers; but you have not ^(C5)inclined your ear or listened to Me.

+'Indeed, the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have ^(C1)followed the command of their father which he commanded them, but this people has not listened to Me.'"'

"Therefore this is what the LORD says, the God of armies, the God of Israel: 'Behold, ^(C1)I am bringing on Judah and on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the disaster that I have pronounced against them; because I ^(C2)spoke to them but they did not listen, and I have called them but they did not answer.'"

Then Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, "This is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel says: 'Because you have ^(C1)obeyed the command of Jonadab your father, kept all his commands, and done according to all that he commanded you,

therefore this is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel says: "Jonadab the son of Rechab ^(C1)will not lack a man to ^(C2)stand before Me ^(F1)always."'"

In the ^(C1)fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

"Take a ^(F1)(C1)scroll and write on it all the ^(C2)words which I have spoken to you concerning ^(C3)Israel, Judah, and all the ^(C4)nations, from the ^(C5)day I first spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.

"^(C1)Perhaps the house of Judah will listen to all the disaster which I plan to carry out against them, so that every person will ^(C2)turn from his evil way; then I will ^(C3)forgive their wrongdoing and their sin."

Then Jeremiah called ^(C1)Baruch the son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote on a ^(F1)(C2)scroll ^(F2)at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD which He had spoken to him.

Jeremiah then commanded Baruch, saying, "I am ^(F1)(C1)restricted; I cannot go into the house of the LORD.

"So you go and ^(C1)read from the scroll, which you have ^(C2)written ^(F1)at my dictation, the words of the LORD ^(F2)to the people at the LORD'S house on a day of ^(C3)fasting. And you shall also read them ^(F2)to all the people of Judah who come from their cities.

"^(C1)Perhaps their pleading will ^(F1)come before the LORD, and everyone will turn from his evil way; for ^(C2)great is the anger and the wrath that the LORD has pronounced against this people."

So Baruch the son of Neriah acted in accordance with all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, ^(C1)reading from the book the words of the LORD in the LORD'S house.

Now in the ^(C1)fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ^(C2)ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who ^(C3)came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem proclaimed a ^(C4)fast before the LORD.

Then Baruch read to all the people from the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD in the ^(C1)chamber of ^(C2)Gemariah the son of Shaphan the ^(C3)scribe, in the upper courtyard, at the ^(C4)entry of the New Gate of the LORD'S house.

Now when ^(C1)Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard all the words of the LORD from the book,

he went down to the king's house, into the scribe's chamber. And behold, all the officials were sitting there—^(C1)Elishama the scribe, ^(C2)Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, ^(C3)Elnathan the son of Achbor, Gemariah the son of Shaphan, Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the other officials.

And Micaiah ^(C1)declared to them all the words that he had heard when Baruch read from the book to the people.

Then all the officials sent ^(C1)Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, who was the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, "Take in your hand the scroll from which you have read to the people and come." So Baruch the son of Neriah ^(C2)took the scroll in his hand and came to them.

And they said to him, "Sit down, please, and read it to us." So Baruch ^(C1)read it to them.

When they had heard all the words, they turned in ^(C1)fear one to another. And they said to Baruch, "We will certainly ^(C2)report all these words to the king."

Then they asked Baruch, saying, "Tell us, please, ^(C1)how did you write all these words? Was it ^(F1)at Jeremiah's dictation?"

And Baruch said to them, "He ^(C1)dictated all these words to me, and I wrote them with ink on the book."

Then the officials said to Baruch, "Go, ^(C1)hide yourself, you and Jeremiah, and do not let anyone know where you are."

So they came to the ^(C1)king in the courtyard, but they had deposited the scroll in the chamber of ^(C1)Elishama the scribe; and they reported all the words to the king.

Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi ^(C1)read it to the king as well as to all the officials who were standing beside the king.

Now the king was sitting in the ^(C1)winter house in the ^(C2)ninth month, with a fire burning in the brazier before him.

And when Jehudi had read three or four columns, the king cut it with a scribe's knife and ^(C1)threw it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all of the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

Yet the king and all his servants who heard all these words did ^(C1)not tremble in fear, nor did they ^(C2)tear their garments.

Even though Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah ^(C1)urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.

And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel to ^(C1)seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet, but the ^(C2)LORD hid them.

Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah after the king had ^(C1)burned the scroll and the words which ^(C2)Baruch had written ^(F1)at the dictation of Jeremiah, saying,

"^(C1)Take again another scroll and write on it all the previous words that were ^(C2)on the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah burned.

"And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, 'This is what the LORD says: "You have ^(C1)burned this scroll, saying, '^(C2)Why have you written on it ^(F1)that the ^(C3)king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will make mankind and animals disappear from it?'"

+'Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: "He shall have ^(C1)no one to sit on the throne of David, and his ^(C2)dead body shall be thrown out to the heat of the day and the frost of the night.

"I will also ^(C1)punish him, his ^(F1)descendants, and his servants for their wrongdoing, and I will ^(C2)bring on them and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the people of Judah all the disaster that I have declared to them—but they did not listen."'"

Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch the son of Neriah, and he ^(C1)wrote on it at the ^(F1)dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and many ^(F2)similar words were added to them.