Jeremiah’s Arrest and His Lament over His Prophetic Role

¹Pashhur son of Immer, the priest who was chief officer of the House of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesy these things. ²Pashhur thereupon had Jeremiah flogged and put in the cell at the Upper Benjamin Gate in the House of the Lord. ³The next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah from the cell.

But Jeremiah said to him, “The Lord has named you not Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.^{a 4}For thus said the Lord: I am going to deliver you and all your friends over to terror: they will fall by the sword of their enemies while you look on. I will deliver all Judah into the hands of the king of Babylon; he will exile them to Babylon or put them to the sword. ⁵And I will deliver all the wealth, all the riches, and all the prized possessions of this city, and I will also deliver all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hands of their enemies: they shall seize them as plunder and carry them off to Babylon. ⁶As for you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house, you shall go into captivity. You shall come to Babylon; there you shall die and there you shall be buried, and so shall all your friends to whom you prophesied falsely.”