Jeremiah 20:7
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.
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Numbers 11:11And Moses said to the Lord, Why have you done me this evil? and why have I not grace in your eyes, that you have put on me the care of all this people?
Job 30:9And now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them.
Psalms 35:15But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me.
Psalms 69:12\69:11\When I put on the clothing of grief, they said evil of me.
Jeremiah 1:6Then said I, O Lord God! see, I have no power of words, for I am a child.
Jeremiah 15:10Sorrow is mine, my mother, because you have given birth to me, a cause of fighting and argument in all the earth! I have not made men my creditors and I am not in debt to any, but every one of them is cursing me.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 20:2-7
The Sin and Doom of Pashur. ( b. c. 600.) 1 Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the Lord , heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things. 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 . 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 Magor-missabib. 4 For… Read the whole commentary →