Jeremiah 20

vayyishma pashkhur ben-immer hakkohen vehu-faqid nagid bevet Adonai et-yirmeyahu nibba et-haddevarim ha'elleh

Pashhur son of Immer, the priest who was chief officer of the House of GOD, heard Jeremiah prophesy these things.

vayyakkeh fashkhur et yirmeyahu hannavi vayyitten oto al-hammahpekhet asher besha'ar binyamin ha'elyon asher bevet Adonai

Pashhur thereupon had Jeremiah flogged and put in the cell at the Upper Benjamin Gate in the House of GOD.

vayehi mimmokhorat vayyotse fashkhur et-yirmeyahu min-hammahpakhet vayyomer elayw yirmeyahu lo fashkhur qara Adonai shemekha ki im-magor missaviv

The next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah from the cell. But Jeremiah said to him, “GOD has named you not Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.

ki khoh amar Adonai hinni notenkha lemagor lekha ulekhol-ohavekha venafelu bekherev oyevehem ve'enekha ro'ot ve'et-kol-yehudah etten beyad melekh-bavel vehiglam bavelah vehikkam bekharev

For thus said GOD: I am going to deliver you and all your friends over to terror: they will fall by the sword of their enemies while you look on. I will deliver all Judah into the hands of the king of Babylon; he will exile them to Babylon or put them to the sword.

venatatti et-kol-khosen ha'ir hazzot ve'et-kol-yegi'ah ve'et-kol-yeqarah ve'et kol-otserot malkhe yehudah etten beyad oyevehem uvezazum uleqakhum vehevi'um bavelah

And I will deliver all the wealth, all the riches, and all the prized possessions of this city, and I will also deliver all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hands of their enemies: they shall seize them as plunder and carry them off to Babylon.

ve'attah fashkhur vekhol yosheve vetekha telekhu bashevi uvavel tavo vesham tamut vesham tiqqaver attah vekhol-ohavekha asher-nibbeta lahem bashaqer

As for you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house, you shall go into captivity. You shall come to Babylon; there you shall die and there you shall be buried, and so shall all your friends to whom you prophesied falsely.”

pittitani Adonai va'eppat khazaqtani vattukhal hayiti liskhoq kol-hayyom kulloh lo'eg li

You enticed me, O ETERNAL One, and I was enticed; You overpowered me and You prevailed. I have become a constant laughingstock, Everyone jeers at me.

ki-midde adabber ezaq khamas vashod eqra ki-hayah devar-Adonai li lekherpah uleqeles kol-hayyom

For every time I speak, I must cry out, Must shout, “Lawlessness and rapine!” For the word of GOD causes me Constant disgrace and contempt.

ve'amarti lo-ezkerennu velo-adabber od bishmo vehayah velibbi ke'esh bo'eret atsur be'atsmotay venileti kalkhel velo ukhal

I thought, “I will not mention it, No more will I speak in God’s name”— But [the divine word] was like a raging fire in my heart, Shut up in my bones; I could not hold it in, I was helpless.

ki shamati dibbat rabbim magor missaviv haggidu venaggidennu kol enosh shelomi shomere tsali ulay yefutteh venukhelah lo veniqkhah niqmatenu mimmennu

I heard the whispers of the crowd— Terror all around: “Inform! Let us inform against him!” All my [supposed] friends Are waiting for me to stumble: “Perhaps he can be entrapped, And we can prevail against him And take our vengeance on him.”

va-Adonai oti kegibbor arits al-ken rodefay yikkashelu velo yukhalu boshu me'od ki-lo hiskilu kelimmat olam lo tishakheakh

But GOD is with me like a mighty warrior; Therefore my persecutors shall stumble; They shall not prevail and shall not succeed. They shall be utterly shamed With a humiliation for all time, Which shall not be forgotten.

va-Adonai tseva'ot bokhen tsaddiq ro'eh khelayot valev ereh niqmatekha mehem ki elekha gilliti et-rivi

O GOD of Hosts, You who test the righteous, Who examine the heart and the mind, Let me see Your retribution upon them, For I lay my case before You.

shiru la-Adonai halelu et-Adonai ki hitsil et-nefesh evyon miyyad mere'im

Sing unto GOD, Praise GOD— Who has rescued the needy From the hands of evildoers!

arur hayyom asher yulladti bo yom asher-yeladatni immi al-yehi varukh

Accursed be the day That I was born! Let not the day be blessed When my mother bore me!

arur ha'ish asher bissar et-avi lemor yullad-lekha ben zakhar sammeakh simmekhahu

Accursed be the man Who brought my father the news And said, “A boy Is born to you,” And gave him such joy!

vehayah ha'ish hahu ke'arim asher-hafakh Adonai velo nikham veshama ze'aqah babboqer uteru'ah be'et tsohorayim

Let that man become like the cities That GOD overthrew without relenting! Let him hear shrieks in the morning And battle shouts at noontide—

asher lo-motetani merakhem vattehi-li immi qivri verakhmah harat olam

Because [God] did not kill me before birth So that my mother might be my grave, And her womb big [with me] for all time.

lammah zeh merekhem yatsati lirot amal veyagon vayyikhlu bevoshet yamay

Why did I ever issue from the womb, To see misery and woe, To spend all my days in shame!