Jeremiah 20:2-4

Contemporary English Version

²and so he hit me.^[a] Then he had me arrested and put in chains^[b] at the Benjamin Gate in the Lord's temple.^[c] ³The next day, when Pashhur let me go free, I told him that the Lord had said:

No longer will I call you Pashhur. Instead, I will call you Afraid-of-Everything.^[d] ⁴You will be afraid, and you will bring fear to your friends as well. You will see enemies kill them in battle. Then I will let the king of Babylonia take everyone in Judah prisoner, killing some and dragging the rest away to Babylonia.

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Footnotes

20.2 hit me: Or “beat me up” or “had me beaten up.”
20.2 in chains: Or “in the stocks” (a wooden frame with holes for the hands, neck, or feet of a prisoner) or “in a prison cell.”
20.2 the Benjamin Gate in the Lord's temple: The Hebrew text has “the upper Benjamin Gate in the temple”; the lower Benjamin Gate may have been the city gate of that name.
20.3 Afraid-of-Everything: Hebrew “Magor-Missabib.”