4 For this is what the lord says: ‘I will send terror upon you and all your friends, and you will watch as they are slaughtered by the swords of the enemy. I will hand the people of Judah over to the king of Babylon. He will take them captive to Babylon or run them through with the sword.
5 And I will let your enemies plunder Jerusalem. All the famed treasures of the city—the precious jewels and gold and silver of your kings—will be carried off to Babylon.
6 As for you, Pashhur, you and all your household will go as captives to Babylon. There you will die and be buried, you and all your friends to whom you prophesied that everything would be all right.’”
7 O lord, you misled me,and I allowed myself to be misled.You are stronger than I am,and you overpowered me.Now I am mocked every day;everyone laughs at me.
8 When I speak, the words burst out.“Violence and destruction!” I shout.So these messages from the lordhave made me a household joke.
9 But if I say I’ll never mention the lordor speak in his name,his word burns in my heart like a fire.It’s like a fire in my bones!I am worn out trying to hold it in!I can’t do it!
10 I have heard the many rumors about me.They call me “The Man Who Lives in Terror.”They threaten, “If you say anything, we will report it.”Even my old friends are watching me,waiting for a fatal slip.“He will trap himself,” they say,“and then we will get our revenge on him.”