Jeremiah 20:7 Cross References - NSB

⁷ O Jehovah, You have deceived me. I was deceived! You have overcome me and prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.

²² Moses went back to Jehovah and asked: »Why have you brought this trouble on your people? Why did you send me? ²³ »Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak for you, he has treated your people cruelly, and you have done nothing at all to rescue your people.«

¹¹ So he asked: »Jehovah, why have you brought me this trouble? How have I displeased you that you put the burden of all these people on me? ¹² »Am I their mother? Did I give birth to them? Are you really asking me to carry them in my arms, as a nurse carries a baby, all the way to the land you promised their ancestors with an oath? ¹³ »Where can I get meat for all these people? They continually cry for me to give them meat to eat. ¹⁴ »I am not able to take care of all these people by myself. This is too much work for me! ¹⁵ »If you treat me like this have pity on me and kill me. That way I will not have to endure my shame any longer.«

²³ Elisha left Jericho to go to Bethel. On the way some boys came out of a town and taunted and made fun of him. They shouted: »Get out of here, baldy!«

⁶ Yet, I am a worm and not a man. I am scorned by humanity and despised by people. ⁷ All who see me laugh at me. Insults pour from their mouths. They shake their heads and say:

¹⁵ Yet, when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together. They gathered together against me. Unknown attackers tore me apart without stopping. ¹⁶ With godless and abusive mockers, they grit their teeth at me.

⁹ Zeal for your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me. ¹⁰ When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach. ¹¹ When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them. ¹² Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.

⁶ I, Jeremiah, said: »Lord Jehovah, I do not know how to speak. I am only a child!« ⁷ Jehovah said to me: »‘Do not say, ‘I am only a child.’ You must go wherever I send you. You must say whatever I command you to say. ⁸ »Do not be afraid of people. I am with you. I will rescue you,« says Jehovah.

¹⁸ »Today I have made you like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and a copper wall. You will be able to stand up to the whole land. You will be able to stand up to Judah's kings, its officials, its priests, and all the common people. ¹⁹ »They will fight you but they will not defeat you. I am with you, and I will rescue you,« declares Jehovah.

¹⁰ Sadness is mine! Why did my mother bring me into the world? I have to quarrel and argue with everyone in the whole earth. I have not lent any money or borrowed any; yet everyone curses me.

¹⁸ »Why do I suffer constant pain? Why is my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you indeed be to me like a deceptive stream with water that is unreliable?«

¹⁶ I have not hurried away from being your shepherd. I have not longed for the day of destruction. You know what I used to say.

²⁶ ‘Jehovah made you priest instead of Jehoiada so that there would be officials for Jehovah’s temple. You should put every madman who acts like a prophet in prison and in shackles.

⁹ But if I say: »I will not remember him or speak anymore in his name,« then in my heart it becomes like a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in. I cannot endure it.

¹⁴ I have become the laughingstock of all the peoples. I am their mocking song all the day.

¹⁴ The Spirit lifted me and took me away. I went away feeling bitter and angry. The strong power of Jehovah came over me.

⁷ The time for them to be punished will come. The time for them to pay for their sins will come. When this happens, Israel will know it. They think that prophets are fools and that spiritual people are crazy. They have sinned a lot, and are filled with hostility.«

⁸ Jehovah’s Spirit fills me with power! I have judgment and mightiness to declare to Jacob, his evil behavior, to tell Israel about his sin!

¹⁴ Hearing this the Pharisees made fun of Jesus, because they loved money.

⁶³ The men that held Jesus mocked him and beat him. ⁶⁴ They blindfolded him, and asked him, saying: »Prophesy: who is it that struck you?«

¹¹ And Herod with his soldiers despised him with contempt, and mocked him. They arrayed him in magnificent apparel. Then they sent him back to Pilate.

³⁵ The people stood watching while the rulers scoffed at him, saying: »He saved others let him save himself if this is his chosen, the Christ of God.« ³⁶ The soldiers mocked him and offered him vinegar,

¹⁸ The Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. Some said: What is this babbler saying? Others: He seems to be advocating strange gods because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

³² Some mocked when they heard about the resurrection of the dead. Yet others said: »We will hear you again concerning this«.

⁹ For I think that God has placed us apostles last as men appointed to death. We are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men. ¹⁰ We are fools for Christ. But you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honorable, but we are despised. ¹¹ Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst. We are naked. We are treated badly and we are homeless. ¹² We labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it; ¹³ being slandered, we answer kindly. We are made as the filth of the world and are the refuse of all things to this day.

⁶ Or is it only Barnabas and I who do not have the right to refrain from secular work?

³⁶ And others had trial of cruel mocking and scourging and bonds and imprisonment.