¹Pashhur the son of Immer the priest, who was overseer and ruler in the house of Yahweh, heard Jeremiah prophesying these words.

²Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were at the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of Yahweh.

³It happened the next day that Pashhur brought out Jeremiah from the stocks. Jeremiah said to him: Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Terror from round about.

⁴For thus says Yahweh: Behold, I am setting you as a terror to yourself and to all your friends; they will fall by the sword of their enemies while your eyes look on. And all Judah I will give into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will take them into exile to Babylon and will strike them down with the sword.

⁵I will give all the wealth of this city and all its produce and all its precious things, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give into the hand of their enemies, and they will plunder them and take them and bring them to Babylon.

⁶And you, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house, will go into captivity; you will come to Babylon, and there you will die, and there you will be buried, you and all your friends, to whom you prophesied to them with falsehood.

⁷You enticed me, Yahweh, and I was enticed; you took hold of me and prevailed. I have become an object of laughter all day; all of them mock me.

⁸For as often as I speak, I cry out; I call: Violence and destruction! For the word of Yahweh has become to me a reproach and a derision all day.

⁹If I say, I will not remember him, and I will not speak again in his name, then it will become in my heart like a fire burning, enclosed in my bones; I weary myself holding it in, and I cannot.

¹⁰For I have heard the whispering of many: Terror from round about! Tell it, and let us tell of him! Every man of my wholeness is watching for my stumbling: Perhaps he will be enticed, and we will prevail against him and take our vengeance from him.

¹¹But Yahweh is with me like an awe-inspiring warrior; therefore my pursuers will stumble and will not prevail. They will be greatly ashamed, for they have not acted wisely: a disgrace forever that will not be forgotten.

¹²And O Yahweh of hosts, who tests the righteous, who sees the kidneys and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them, for to you I have uncovered my dispute.

¹³Sing to Yahweh, praise Yahweh, for he has delivered the being of the needy from the hand of those who do evil.

¹⁴Cursed be the day on which I was born; the day that my mother bore me, let it not be blessed.

¹⁵Cursed be the man who brought news to my father, saying: A son, a male, has been born to you, making him rejoice indeed.

¹⁶May that man be like the cities that Yahweh overturned and did not relent; may he hear a cry of distress in the morning and a shout of alarm at the time of noon.

¹⁷Because he did not kill me in the womb, so that my mother would have been my grave and her womb pregnant forever.

¹⁸Why then did I come forth from the womb, to see toil and sorrow, so that my days come to an end in shame?