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Jeremiah Chapter 20

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JEREMIAH

Jeremiah 20

1When Pashur, the sonne of Immer, the Priest, which was appointed gouernour in the house of the Lord, heard that Ieremiah prophecied these things,
Ezra 2:37, Ezra 2:38, 1 Chronicles 24:14, Ezra 2:37, Ezra 2:38
2Then Pashur smote Ieremiah the Prophet, and put him in the stockes that were in the hie gate of Beniamin which was by the House of the Lord.
Jeremiah 37:13, Jeremiah 37:13, 2 Chronicles 16:10, Zechariah 14:10, Jeremiah 1:19
3And on the morning, Pashur brought Ieremiah out of the stockes. Then said Ieremiah vnto him, The Lord hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magor-missabib.
Jeremiah 20:10, Jeremiah 20:10, Jeremiah 46:5, Psalms 31:13, Lamentations 2:22
4For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will make thee to be a terrour to thy self, and to al thy friends, and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall beholde it, and I will giue all Iudah into the hande of the King of Babel, and he shall cary them captiue into Babel, and shall slay them with the sworde.
Jeremiah 29:21, Jeremiah 29:21, Job 18:11, Job 18:21, Jeremiah 39:6
5Moreouer, I will deliuer all the substance of this citie, and all the labours thereof, and al the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the Kings of Iudah will I giue into the hande of their enemies, which shall spoyle them, and take them away and cary them to Babel.
Jeremiah 15:13, Ezekiel 22:25, Jeremiah 15:13, Ezekiel 22:25, 2 Kings 25:13
6And thou Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house, shall go into captiuitie, and thou shalt come to Babel, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buryed there, thou and all thy friendes, to whome thou hast prophecied lyes.
Lamentations 2:14, Jeremiah 14:14, Jeremiah 14:15, Lamentations 2:14, Jeremiah 14:14
7O Lord, thou hast deceiued me, and I am deceiued: thou art stronger then I, and hast preuailed: I am in derision daily: euery one mocketh me.
Hosea 9:7, Lamentations 3:14, Hosea 9:7, Lamentations 3:14, Jeremiah 20:9
8For since I spake, I cryed out of wrong, and proclaimed desolation: therefore the word of the Lord was made a reproche vnto me, and in derision daily.
Jeremiah 6:10, 2 Chronicles 36:16, Jeremiah 6:10, 2 Chronicles 36:16, Hebrews 11:26
9Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speake any more in his Name. But his worde was in mine heart as a burning fire shut vp in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
Psalms 39:3, Psalms 39:3, Job 32:18, Job 32:20, Job 32:18
10For I had heard the railing of many, and feare on euery side. Declare, said they, and wee wil declare it: all my familiars watched for mine halting, saying, It may be that he is deceiued: so we shall preuaile against him, and we shall execute our vengeance vpon him.
Psalms 41:9, Psalms 41:9, Psalms 31:13, Psalms 31:13, Isaiah 29:21
11But the Lord is with me like a mightie gyant: therefore my persecuters shall be ouerthrowen, and shall not preuaile, and shalbe greatly confounded: for they haue done vnwisely, and their euerlasting shame shall neuer be forgotten.
Jeremiah 1:19, Jeremiah 1:19, Jeremiah 1:8, Jeremiah 1:8, Jeremiah 15:20
12But, O Lord of hostes, that tryest the righteous, and seest the reines and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for vnto thee haue I opened my cause.
Jeremiah 11:20, Psalms 62:8, Jeremiah 11:20, Psalms 62:8, Psalms 54:7
13Sing vnto the Lord, praise ye the Lord: for he hath deliuered the soule of the poore from the hande of the wicked.
Isaiah 25:4, Isaiah 25:4, Psalms 35:9, Psalms 35:11, Psalms 69:33
14Cursed be the day wherein I was borne: and let not the day wherein my mother bare me, be blessed.
Jeremiah 15:10, Jeremiah 15:10, Job 3:3, Job 3:16, Job 3:3
15Cursed be the man, that shewed my father, saying, A man child is borne vnto thee, and comforted him.
Jeremiah 1:5, Genesis 21:5, Genesis 21:6, Luke 1:14, Jeremiah 1:5
16And let that man be as the cities, which the Lord hath ouerturned and repented not: and let him heare the cry in the morning, and the showting at noone tide,
Jeremiah 18:22, Jeremiah 18:22, Jeremiah 48:3, Jeremiah 48:4, Deuteronomy 29:23
17Because he hath not slaine me, euen from the wombe, or that my mother might haue bene my graue, or her wobe a perpetual conception.
Job 3:10, Job 3:11, Job 10:18, Job 10:19, Job 3:10
18How is it, that I came forth of the wombe, to see labour and sorowe, that my dayes shoulde be consumed with shame?
Job 3:20, Job 3:20, Job 14:1, Lamentations 3:1, 1 Peter 4:14

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