1 En Pashur, die seun van Immer, die priester -- wat hoofopsigter was in die huis van die HERE -- het Jeremia hierdie woorde hoor profeteer.
2 Toe het Pashur die profeet Jeremia geslaan en hom in die blok gesit wat in die Boonste Poort van Benjamin was, by die huis van die HERE.
3 Maar die volgende dag het Pashur Jeremia uit die blok laat uithaal. Toe sê Jeremia vir hom: Die HERE noem jou nie Pashur nie, maar Skrik -- rondom!
4 Want so spreek die HERE: Kyk, Ek maak jou 'n skrik vir jouself en vir al jou vriende; en hulle sal val deur die swaard van hul vyande, terwyl jou oë dit sien, en die hele Juda sal Ek gee in die hand van die koning van Babel, wat hulle in ballingskap sal wegvoer na Babel en hulle met die swaard sal verslaan.
5 Ook sal Ek die hele besitting van hierdie stad en al sy goed en al sy kosbare dinge gee, ja, al die skatte van die konings van Juda sal Ek gee in die hand van hulle vyande, en hulle sal dit buitmaak en saamneem en na Babel bring.
6 En jy, Pashur, en al die inwoners van jou huis sal in gevangenskap gaan; en jy sal in Babel kom en daar sterwe en daar begrawe word, jy en al jou vriende vir wie jy vals geprofeteer het.
7 HERE, U het my oorgehaal, en ek het my laat oorhaal; U was te sterk vir my en het oorwin; ek was 'n belagging die hele dag, almal saam spot met my.
8 Want elke keer as ek spreek, moet ek dit uitskreeu, moet ek roep: Geweld en verdrukking! -- omdat die woord van die HERE vir my 'n smaad en spot geword het die hele dag.
9 En as ek sê: Ek sal aan Hom nie dink nie en in sy Naam nie meer spreek nie, dan word dit in my hart soos 'n brandende vuur, opgesluit in my gebeente. En ek het my moeg gemaak om uit te hou, maar kon nie.
10 Want ek het die skindertaal van baie gehoor -- skrik rondom! -- Klaag aan, en ons sal hom aanklaag! Al die mense wat met my in vrede lewe, loer op my val; hulle sê: Miskien laat hy hom verlei, dan kan ons hom oorweldig en ons wraak op hom neem.
11 Maar die HERE is met my soos 'n geweldige held; daarom sal my vervolgers struikel en nie oorwin nie; hulle staan diep beskaamd, omdat hulle nie geslaag het nie, 'n ewige smaad wat nie vergeet sal word nie.
12 Maar, HERE van die leërskare, wat die regverdige toets, wat die niere en die hart sien -- laat my u wraak sien op hulle, want aan U het ek my regsaak toevertrou.
13 Sing tot eer van die HERE, prys die HERE! Want Hy het die siel van die behoeftige uit die hand van die kwaaddoeners verlos.
14 Vervloek is die dag waarop ek gebore is; laat die dag waarop my moeder my gebaar het, nie geseënd wees nie.
15 Vervloek is die man wat aan my vader berig gebring en gesê het: Vir jou is 'n seun gebore -- waardeur hy hom grootliks verbly het.
16 Ja, laat die man wees soos die stede wat die HERE omgekeer het sonder dat dit Hom berou het; en laat hom in die môre angsgeroep hoor en op die middagtyd krygsgeskreeu,
17 omdat hy my nie gedood het van die moederskoot af, sodat my moeder my graf geword het en haar skoot vir ewig swanger gebly het nie.
18 Waarom het ek tog uit die moederskoot voortgekom om moeite en kommer te sien, sodat my dae in skande verdwyn?
1 Now it came to the ears of Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief in authority in the house of the Lord, that Jeremiah was saying these things;
2 And Pashhur gave blows to Jeremiah and had his feet chained in a framework of wood in the higher doorway of Benjamin, which was in the house of the Lord.
3 Then on the day after, Pashhur let Jeremiah loose. Then Jeremiah said to him, The Lord has given you the name of Magor-missabib (Cause-of-fear-on-every-side), not Pashhur.
4 For the Lord has said, See, I will make you a cause of fear to yourself and to all your friends: they will come to their death by the sword of their haters, and your eyes will see it: and I will give all Judah into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will take them away prisoners into Babylon and put them to the sword.
5 And more than this, I will give all the wealth of this town and all its profits and all its things of value, even all the stores of the kings of Judah will I give into the hands of their haters, who will put violent hands on them and take them away to Babylon.
6 And you, Pashhur, and all who are in your house, will go away prisoners: you will come to Babylon, and there your body will be put to rest, you and all your friends, to whom you said false words.
7 O Lord, you have been false to me, and I was tricked; you are stronger than I, and have overcome me: I have become a thing to be laughed at all the day, everyone makes sport of me.
8 For every word I say is a cry for help; I say with a loud voice, Violent behaviour and wasting: because the word of the Lord is made a shame to me and a cause of laughing all the day.
9 And if I say, I will not keep him in mind, I will not say another word in his name; then it is in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am tired of keeping myself in, I am not able to do it.
10 For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.
11 But the Lord is with me as a great one, greatly to be feared: so my attackers will have a fall, and they will not overcome me: they will be greatly shamed, because they have not done wisely, even with an unending shame, kept in memory for ever.
12 But, O Lord of armies, testing the upright and seeing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them; for I have put my cause before you.
13 Make melody to the Lord, give praise to the Lord: for he has made the soul of the poor man free from the hands of the evil-doers.
14 A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.
15 A curse on the man who gave the news to my father, saying, You have a male child; making him very glad.
16 May that man be like the towns overturned by the Lord without mercy: let a cry for help come to his ears in the morning, and the sound of war in the middle of the day;
17 Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.
18 Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?