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Jeremiah Chapter 20

Jeremiah
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Jeremiah

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In this chapter Jeremiah describes the consequences of Israel's rebellion, noting that the land is left barren and the people are in fear. He emphasizes that God's judgment is swift and that the nation's sins have brought this ruin. The message stresses that divine punishment follows disobedience and that repentance is required.

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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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I Chronicles 24:14Ezra 2:37Ezra 2:38Nehemiah 7:40Nehemiah 7:41II Kings 25:18II Chronicles 35:8Acts 4:1Acts 5:24

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Jeremiah 20:3Jeremiah 26:20Jeremiah 38:1Jeremiah 38:6

(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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Jeremiah 1:19Jeremiah 19:14Jeremiah 19:15Jeremiah 26:8Jeremiah 29:26Jeremiah 36:26Jeremiah 37:15Jeremiah 37:16Jeremiah 38:6I Kings 22:27II Chronicles 16:10II Chronicles 24:21

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Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9Jeremiah 28:12Jeremiah 20:3Jeremiah 37:13Ezekiel 40:23

(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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Acts 4:5Acts 4:6Acts 4:7Acts 16:30Acts 16:35Acts 16:36Acts 16:37Acts 16:38Acts 16:39Jeremiah 7:32Jeremiah 19:2Jeremiah 19:6

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Jeremiah 38:1Jeremiah 38:6Jeremiah 20:2Jeremiah 20:1Jeremiah 21:1Jeremiah 28:12

(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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Deuteronomy 28:65Deuteronomy 28:66Deuteronomy 28:67Job 18:11Job 18:12Job 18:13Job 18:14Job 18:15Job 18:16Job 18:17Job 18:18Job 18:19

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Jeremiah 51:49Jeremiah 51:44Ezekiel 30:25II Kings 24:16Jeremiah 24:1Jeremiah 27:20

(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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Jeremiah 3:24Jeremiah 4:20Jeremiah 12:12Jeremiah 15:13Jeremiah 24:8Jeremiah 24:9Jeremiah 24:10Jeremiah 27:19Jeremiah 27:20Jeremiah 27:21Jeremiah 27:22Jeremiah 32:3

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II Kings 21:14Jeremiah 20:4II Chronicles 20:25Deuteronomy 20:14I Samuel 30:26II Chronicles 6:36

(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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Jeremiah 28:15Jeremiah 28:16Jeremiah 28:17Jeremiah 29:21Jeremiah 29:22Jeremiah 29:32Acts 13:8Acts 13:9Acts 13:10Acts 13:11Jeremiah 20:4Jeremiah 5:31

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Ezekiel 16:53II Kings 7:4II Chronicles 25:4Romans 14:8Genesis 49:31Jeremiah 20:4

(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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Jeremiah 1:6Jeremiah 1:7Jeremiah 1:8Jeremiah 1:18Jeremiah 1:19Jeremiah 15:18Jeremiah 17:16Exodus 5:22Exodus 5:23Numbers 11:11Numbers 11:12Numbers 11:13

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Ezekiel 14:9I Timothy 2:14Obadiah 1:7

(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.
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Jeremiah 4:19Jeremiah 4:20Jeremiah 4:21Jeremiah 4:22Jeremiah 5:1Jeremiah 5:6Jeremiah 5:15Jeremiah 5:16Jeremiah 5:17Jeremiah 6:6Jeremiah 6:7Jeremiah 7:9

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Jonah 2:2Zechariah 7:13Revelation 10:3Habakkuk 2:17

(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.
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I Kings 19:3I Kings 19:4John 1:2John 1:3John 4:2John 4:3Luke 9:62Acts 15:37Acts 15:38Jeremiah 6:11Job 32:18Job 32:19

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Jeremiah 8:1II Samuel 21:13II Kings 23:18Leviticus 13:28Isaiah 3:1

(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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Psalms 31:13Psalms 57:4Psalms 64:2Psalms 64:3Psalms 64:4Matthew 26:59Matthew 26:60Jeremiah 18:18Nehemiah 6:6Nehemiah 6:7Nehemiah 6:8Nehemiah 6:9

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Isaiah 23:5II Corinthians 6:8

(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.
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Jeremiah 1:8Jeremiah 1:19Jeremiah 15:20Isaiah 41:10Isaiah 41:14Romans 8:31II Timothy 4:17Psalms 47:2Psalms 65:5Psalms 66:5Jeremiah 17:18Deuteronomy 32:35

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Daniel 8:24

(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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Jeremiah 17:10Psalms 7:9Psalms 11:5Psalms 17:3Psalms 26:2Psalms 26:3Psalms 139:23Revelation 2:23Jeremiah 11:20Jeremiah 12:8Jeremiah 17:18Jeremiah 18:19

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Jeremiah 11:20Jeremiah 46:10Matthew 10:41Zechariah 1:3

(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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Psalms 34:6Psalms 35:9Psalms 35:10Psalms 35:11Psalms 69:33Psalms 72:4Psalms 109:30Psalms 109:31Isaiah 25:4James 2:5James 2:6

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Psalms 47:6Ecclesiastes 9:15Judges 5:3Psalms 7:17Psalms 104:33Psalms 113:1

(14) Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
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Jeremiah 15:10Job 3:3Job 3:4Job 3:5Job 3:6Job 3:7Job 3:8Job 3:9Job 3:10Job 3:11Job 3:12Job 3:13

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Numbers 12:11Psalms 90:15Ecclesiastes 2:19Luke 12:53Deuteronomy 12:7Joshua 22:33

(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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Jeremiah 1:5Genesis 21:5Genesis 21:6Luke 1:14

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II Samuel 12:18I Corinthians 13:11II Kings 4:34II Samuel 18:20

(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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Genesis 19:24Genesis 19:25Deuteronomy 29:23Hosea 11:8Amos 4:11Zephaniah 2:9Luke 17:29II Peter 2:6Jude 1:7Jeremiah 18:8Jeremiah 26:13Jonah 3:4

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Jeremiah 48:33

(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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Job 3:10Job 3:11Job 3:16Job 10:18Job 10:19Ecclesiastes 6:3

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Luke 12:53Job 31:15Isaiah 49:1Job 10:19Proverbs 30:16

(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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Job 3:20Job 14:1Job 14:13Lamentations 3:1Jeremiah 8:18Genesis 3:16Genesis 3:17Genesis 3:18Genesis 3:19Psalms 90:10Lamentations 1:12John 16:20

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