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All the wealth of this city, all its resources and its valuables, all the treasures of the kings of Judah, I will hand over to their enemies, who will plunder it and carry it away to Babylon.(A) You, Pashhur, and all the members of your household shall go into exile. To Babylon you shall go; there you shall die and be buried, you and all your friends, because you have prophesied lies to them.”(B)

Jeremiah’s Interior Crisis

You seduced me,[a] Lord, and I let myself be seduced;
    you were too strong for me, and you prevailed.
All day long I am an object of laughter;
    everyone mocks me.

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Footnotes

  1. 20:7 You seduced me: Jeremiah accuses the Lord of having deceived him; cf. 15:18.