Jeremiah 20:7
“You have led me away, O Lord, and I have been led away. You have been stronger than I, and you have prevailed. I have become a derision all day long; everyone mocks me.
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Numbers 11:11And so he said to the Lord: “Why have you afflicted your servant? Why do I not find favor before you? And why have you imposed the weight of this entire people upon me?
Job 30:9Now I become their song, and I have been made into their proverb.
Jeremiah 1:6And I said: “Alas, alas, alas, Lord God! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am a boy.”
Jeremiah 15:10“O my mother, woe to me! Why did you conceive me, a man of strife, a man of discord to all the earth? I have not lent money at interest, nor has anyone lent money at interest to me. Yet everyone 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 →