1 Pashur, smiting Jeremiah, receives a new name, and a fearful doom.
7 Jeremiah complains of contempt;
10 of treachery;
14 and of his birth.

Immer. 1Ch 24:14 Ezr 2:37,38 Ne 7:40,41

chief. 2Ki 25:18 2Ch 35:8 Ac 4:1 5:24

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.

smote. 1:19 19:14,15 26:8 29:26 36:26 37:15,16 38:6 1Ki 22:27 2Ch 16:10 24:21 Am 7:10-13 Mt 5:10-12 21:35 23:34-37 Ac 4:3 Ac 5:18,40 7:52 16:22-24 Heb 11:36,37 Re 2:10 17:6

the stocks. Hammahpecheth, to overturn, subvert, distort, generally denotes an overthrow, and seems to signify here a sort of stocks, by which the limbs were distorted unto uneasy postures. So the Chaldee, keephtha and Jerome, nervus, which he explains in his comment as 'a kind of wooden fetter, into which the feet were thrust, {vinculi lignei genus, cui pedes inseruntur.} Some learned men understand it as merely signifying a place of confinement, or house of correction; but the word is never used for any of the prisons into which the prophet was afterwards cast; and the punishment seems to have been public and ignominious.

in the high. 37:13 38:7 Zec 14:10

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.

Pashur. Ac 4:5-7 16:30,35-39

hath. 7:32 19:2,6 Ge 17:5,15 32:28 Isa 8:3 Ho 1:4-9

Magor-missabib. this is, Fear round about. 10 6:25 46:5 29:29 Ps 31:13 La 2:22

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.

I will make. De 28:65-67 Job 18:11-21 20:23-26 Ps 73:19 Eze 26:17-21 Mt 27:4,5

thine. 29:21 39:6,7 De 28:32-34 1Sa 2:33 2Ki 25:7

I will give. 19:15 21:4-10 25:9 32:27-31

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.

I will deliver. 3:24 4:20 12:12 15:13 24:8-10 27:19-22 32:3-5 39:2,8 52:7-23 2Ki 20:17,18 24:12-16 25:13 2Ch 36:10,17-19 La 1:7,10 La 4:12 Eze 22:25 Da 1:2

labours. The word labours is here used for the produce of labour.

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.

thou. Pashur. 28:15-17 29:21,22,32 Ac 13:8-11

thy friends. 4 5:31 6:13-15 8:10,11 14:14,15 23:14-17,25,26,32 Isa 9:15 La 2:14 Eze 13:4-16,22,23 22:28 Mic 2:11 Zec 13:3 2Pe 2:1-3

thou hast. Le 26:17 De 28:25

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.

deceived. or enticed. 1:6-8,18,19 15:18 17:16 Ex 5:22,23 Nu 11:11-15

thou art. 9 Eze 3:14 Mic 3:8 1Co 9:6

I am. 15:10 29:26 2Ki 2:23 Ps 22:6,7 35:15,16 69:9-12 La 3:14 Ho 9:7 Lu 16:14 22:63,64 23:11,35,36 Ac 17:18,32 1Co 4:9-13 Heb 11:36

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.

I cried. 4:19 5:1,6,15-17 6:6,7 7:9 13:13,14 15:1-4,13,14 17:27 18:16,17 19:7-11 28:8

the word. 7 6:10 2Ch 36:16 La 3:61-63 Lu 11:45 Heb 11:26 13:13 1Pe 4:14

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.

I will. 1Ki 19:3,4 Joh 1:2,3 4:2,3 Lu 9:62 Ac 15:37,38

was in. 6:11 Job 32:18-20 Ps 39:3 Eze 3:14 Ac 4:20 17:16 18:5 1Co 9:16,17 2Co 5:13-15

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.

I heard. Ps 31:13 57:4 64:2-4 Mt 26:59,60

fear. 3

report. 18:18 Ne 6:6-13 Pr 10:18 Isa 29:21 Eze 22:9 Lu 20:20 Ac 6:11-15 24:1-9,13

All my familiars. Heb. Every man of my peace. Job 19:19 Ps 41:9 55:13,14 Lu 11:53,54 12:52,53

we shall. 1Ki 19:2 21:20 22:8,27 Mr 6:19-28 Ac 5:33 7:54 23:12-15

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.

the Lord. 1:8,19 15:20 Isa 41:10,14 Ro 8:31 2Ti 4:17

a mighty. Ps 47:2 65:5 66:5

my. 17:18 De 32:35,36 Ps 27:1,2 Joh 18:4-6

and they. 1:19 15:20

everlasting. 23:40 Ps 6:10 35:26 40:14 Isa 45:16 Da 12:2

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.

that. 17:10 Ps 7:9 11:5 17:3 26:2,3 139:23 Re 2:23

let me. 11:20 12:8 17:18 18:19-23 2Ch 24:22 Ps 54:7 59:10 109:6-20 Re 6:10 18:20 19:2,3

for. 1Sa 1:15 Ps 62:8 86:4 Isa 37:14 38:14 1Pe 2:23 4:19

13 Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.

for. Ps 34:6 35:9-11 69:33 72:4 109:30,31 Isa 25:4 Jas 2:5,6

14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

15:10 Job 3:3-16

15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.

A man. 1:5 Ge 21:5,6 Lu 1:14

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;

as. Ge 19:24,25 De 29:23 Ho 11:8 Am 4:11 Zep 2:9 Lu 17:29 2Pe 2:6 Jude 7

repented. 18:8 26:13 Jon 3:4,9,10 4:2

let him. 4:19 18:22 48:3,4 Eze 21:22 Ho 10:14 Am 1:14 2:2 Zep 1:16

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.

he slew. Job 3:10,11,16 10:18,19 Ec 6:3

18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

came. Job 3:20 14:1,13 La 3:1

to see. 8:18 Ge 3:16-19 Ps 90:10 La 1:12 Joh 16:20 Heb 10:36

with. Ps 69:19 Isa 1:6 61:7 Ac 5:41 1Co 4:9-13 2Ti 1:12 Heb 11:36 Heb 12:2 13:13 1Pe 4:14-16