Jeremiah 20

1 and to hear: hear Pashhur son: child Immer [the] priest and he/she/it overseer leader in/on/with house: temple LORD [obj] Jeremiah to prophesy [obj] [the] word: thing [the] these

Pashhur, the son of Immer, was a priest who supervised the temple guards. He heard those things that I had prophesied.

2 and to smite Pashhur [obj] Jeremiah [the] prophet and to give: put [obj] him upon [the] stocks which in/on/with gate Benjamin (Gate) [the] high which in/on/with house: temple LORD

[So he arrested me]. Then he [commanded guards to] whip me and fasten my feet in (stocks/a wooden frame) at the Benjamin Gate of Yahweh’s temple.

3 and to be from morrow and to come out: send Pashhur [obj] Jeremiah from [the] stocks and to say to(wards) him Jeremiah not Pashhur to call: call by LORD name your that if: except if: except `Terror on Every Side` from `Terror on Every Side`

The next day, when Pashhur released me, I said to him, “Pashhur, Yahweh is giving you a new name. From now on, your name will be ‘Surrounded by Terror’,

4 for thus to say LORD look! I to give: make you to/for terror to/for you and to/for all to love: friend you and to fall: kill in/on/with sword enemy their and eye: seeing your to see: see and [obj] all Judah to give: give in/on/with hand: power king Babylon and to reveal: remove them Babylon [to] and to smite them in/on/with sword

because Yahweh says this [to you]: ‘I will cause you and your friends to be terrified. You will watch them being killed by your enemies’ swords. I will enable the [army of the] king of Babylon to capture the people of Judah. Those soldiers will take some of the people to Babylon, and they will kill others with their swords.

5 and to give: give [obj] all wealth [the] city [the] this and [obj] all toil her and [obj] all preciousness her and [obj] all treasure king Judah to give: give in/on/with hand: power enemy their and to plunder them and to take: take them and to come (in): bring them Babylon [to]

And I will enable their soldiers to take away [other things in] Jerusalem. They will take to Babylon all the very valuable things that belonged to your kings.

6 and you(m. s.) Pashhur and all to dwell house: home your to go: went in/on/with captivity and Babylon to come (in): come and there to die and there to bury you(m. s.) and all to love: friend you which to prophesy to/for them in/on/with deception

And [as for] you, Pashhur, they will take you and all your family to Babylon. You and your family and all your friends who have prophesied things that are lies will die there and be buried there.’”

7 to entice me LORD and to entice to strengthen: strengthen me and be able to be to/for laughter all [the] day all his to mock to/for me

[One day I said this to Yahweh]: “Yahweh, [when you chose me to be a prophet, ] deceived me, and I allowed you to deceive me. You insisted that I [become a prophet] and you are stronger than I am. And now everyone [HYP] ridicules me. They make fun of me all the day.

8 for from sufficiency to speak: speak to cry out violence and violence to call: call out for to be word LORD to/for me to/for reproach and to/for derision all [the] day

When I tell [people your messages], I shout saying, ‘[Yahweh is going to cause you to experience] violence and destruction!’ So because I tell them those messages from you, they insult me and scoff at me all day long.

9 and to say not to remember him and not to speak: speak still in/on/with name his and to be in/on/with heart my like/as fire to burn: burn to restrain in/on/with bone my and be weary to sustain and not be able

But if I would say, ‘I will never mention Yahweh or say anything about him, [MTY]’ [it would be as though] your message would burn in my inner being like [SIM] a fire; it would be like a fire in my bones. Sometimes I try to remain silent and not proclaim your messages, but I am not able to do that.

10 for to hear: hear slander many terror from around: side to tell and to tell him all human peace: friendship my to keep: look at stumbling my perhaps to entice and be able to/for him and to take: take vengeance our from him

I hear many people whispering [about me], saying ‘[He is the man who proclaims that there will be things that cause us to] be terrified everywhere. We must tell [the authorities what he is saying]! We must denounce him!’ [Even] my best friends are waiting for me to say something that is wrong. [They are saying], ‘Perhaps we can cause him to say something wrong, and if he does, we will be able to discredit him.’

11 and LORD with me like/as mighty man ruthless upon so to pursue me to stumble and not be able be ashamed much for not be prudent shame forever: enduring not to forget

But [you], Yahweh, are helping me like [SIM] a strong warrior, so [it is as though] you will cause those who persecute me to stumble, and they will not defeat me. They will be completely disgraced because of being unable to defeat me; and other people will never forget that they were disgraced.

12 and LORD Hosts to test righteous to see: see kidney and heart to see: see vengeance your from them for to(wards) you to reveal: reveal [obj] strife my

Commander of the armies of angels, you examine [all] those who are righteous; you know [all that is in] their inner beings and what they think. Allow me to see you getting revenge on those [who want to harm me], because I trust that you will do for me what is right.”

13 to sing to/for LORD to boast: praise [obj] LORD for to rescue [obj] soul: life needy from hand: power be evil

Sing to Yahweh! Praise Yahweh! He rescues [poor and] needy people, from those [SYN] who are wicked.

14 to curse [the] day which to beget in/on/with him day which to beget me mother my not to be to bless

But I hope/desire that the day that I was born will be cursed. I do not want [anyone to] celebrate that day.

15 to curse [the] man which to bear tidings [obj] father my to/for to say to beget to/for you son: child male to rejoice to rejoice him

And [as for] that man who brought to my father the news, and caused him to be very happy, by saying “[You wife] has given birth to a son for you”, I hope/desire that he [also] will be cursed.

16 and to be [the] man [the] he/she/it like/as city which to overturn LORD and not to be sorry: comfort and to hear: hear outcry in/on/with morning and shout in/on/with time midday

Allow him to be destroyed like the cities that Yahweh destroyed [long ago], without acting mercifully [toward them]. Cause that man to hear the people wailing in the morning, and [to hear the enemy soldiers shout their] battle cries at noon.

17 which not to die me from womb and to be to/for me mother my grave my and womb her pregnant forever: enduring

[I want that to happen to him] because he did not kill me before I was born. I wish that I had died in my mother’s womb, and that my mother’s body would have been [like] [MET] my grave.

18 to/for what? this from womb to come out: produce to/for to see: see trouble and sorrow and to end: expend in/on/with shame day my

I have continually experienced much trouble and sorrow, and I am disgraced now when I am about to die; why was it necessary [RHQ] for me to me born?