Armiya 20

Now Pashhur Ibn Immer the priest, who was chief officer in the house of Allah, heard Armiya prophesying these things. ²Then Pashhur struck Armiya the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Binyamin, which was in the house of Allah. ³It happened on the next day, that Pashhur brought forth Armiya out of the stocks. Then Armiya said to him, Allah has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib. ⁴For thus says Allah, Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself, and to all your friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall see it; and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall kill them with the sword. ⁵Moreover I will give all the riches of this city, and all its products, and all its precious things, yes, all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies; and they shall make them a prey, and take them, and carry them to Babylon. ⁶You, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house shall go into captivity; and you shall come to Babylon, and there you shall die, and there you shall be buried, you, and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely. ⁷Allah, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded; you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I have become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocks me. ⁸For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! Because the word of Allah is made a reproach to me, and a derision, all the day. ⁹If I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot contain. ¹⁰For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall; perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him. ¹¹But Allah is with me as an awesome mighty one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonour which shall never be forgotten. ¹²But, Allah, Lord of the universe, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause. ¹³Sing to Allah, praise Allah; for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evil-doers. ¹⁴Cursed be the day in which I was born: do not let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed. ¹⁵Cursed be the man who brought news to my father, saying, A man-child is born to you; making him very glad. ¹⁶Let that man be as the cities which Allah overthrew, and did not relent: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime; ¹⁷because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great. ¹⁸Why did I come forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

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