Jeremiah 20:1-3

New Catholic Bible

Chapter 20

¹ When the priest Pashhur, the son of Immer, who was the chief officer in the house of the Lord, heard Jeremiah proclaiming this prophecy, ² he ordered him to be scourged, and then placed him in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin in the house of the Lord.

³ The next morning, after Pashhur had released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The Lord’s name for you is not Pashhur but ‘Terror-on-Every-Side.’