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| 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. |
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| 2 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD. |
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| 3 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib. |
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| 4 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword. |
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| 5 Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon. |
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| 6 And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies. |
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| 7 O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me. |
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| 8 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily. |
Word of the LORD – Concerning Israel. R5489:1
A reproach – Despised and rejected. R5489:2
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| 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. |
Nor speak any more – He had become disheartened. R5489:2
If he had allowed his fears to overwhelm him and had withheld God's message, he would have been set aside and another commissioned to deliver the message. So it is with us today. R5489:3
His word – Telling them that they had failed to keep their covenant with the Lord and would surely be carried away into captivity. R5489:2
Our message is the overthrow of the kingdom of darkness and the establishment of the Kingdom of God. R5489:5
In mine heart – God has let us into the secret of his counsels. R5489:3
As a burning fire – Burning zeal in his heart, a consuming sense of the importance of the message given him to deliver. R5489:1
All of the Lord's people filled with his spirit must be engaged in the harvest work in some manner. R2490:5
Shut up – If kept shut off from a draft the fire will become extinguished. "Quench not the spirit." (1 Thess. 5:19) R5489:3
I could not stay – His message had to be spoken; he overcame the temptation to hold his peace. R5489:2
He could not quench the fire within his soul, withholding God's message, without losing his relationship to Jehovah. R5489:3
We might let the holy Spirit of God die out in our hearts by a failure to do our duty. R5489:3
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| 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 shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him. |
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| 11 But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten. |
Greatly ashamed – The only standard of judgment in public sentiment in the Millennium will be character. R1655:2
Everlasting confusion – "Some shall awake to everlasting contempt." (Dan. 12:2) R1655:1
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| 12 But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause. |
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| 13 Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers. |
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| 14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. |
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| 15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad. |
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| 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; |
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| 17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me. |
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| 18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame? |
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