Jeremías 20:3

3 Al día siguiente, cuando al fin Pasur lo puso en libertad, Jeremías dijo: «Pasur, el Señor
te ha cambiado el nombre. De ahora en adelante serás llamado: “El hombre que vive aterrorizado”
.

Jeremías 20:3 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 20:3

And it came to pass on the morrow
After the prophet was put into the stocks; so that he was there all night: that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks;
either to bring him before the priests, or the sanhedrim, to be examined; or in order to dismiss him, being either admonished by his friends, or convicted in his own conscience that he had done a wrong thing; then said Jeremiah unto him;
when he had brought him out, not being at all intimidated by him, and having a word from the Lord for him: the Lord hath not called thy name Pashur;
which, according to Jerom, signifies "blackness of mouth"; and, according to others, "diffusing paleness"; one that terrified others, and made their faces look pale; but now it should be otherwise, and he himself should be filled with terror, and have paleness of thee: but, according to a late etymologist, it signifies one abounding or "increased in liberty" ^F24, who in a little time would become a captive; for it is not suggested hereby that he should no more be called by this name, but that he should be in a condition which would not answer to it, but to another, as follows: but Magormissabib;
or, "fear round about"; signifying that terrors should be all around him, and he in the utmost fright and consternation. The Septuagint version renders it "one removing"; changing from place to place; that is, going into captivity; a stranger and wanderer, as the Syriac version. The Targum is,

``but there shall be gathered together against thee those that kill with the sword round about;''

meaning the Chaldeans, which would make him a "Magormissabib".

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 (vp) "abundantiam" , & (rwx) liberum sonat", Hiller. Onomast. Sacr. p. 302. Paschchur, "auctus libertate", ib. p. 904.

Jeremías 20:3 In-Context

1 Jeremías y Pasur
Ahora bien, Pasur, hijo de Imer, el sacerdote encargado del templo del Señor
, oyó lo que Jeremías profetizaba.

2 Así que arrestó al profeta Jeremías, ordenó que lo azotaran y que lo pusieran en el cepo junto a la puerta de Benjamín, en el templo del Señor
.

3 Al día siguiente, cuando al fin Pasur lo puso en libertad, Jeremías dijo: «Pasur, el Señor
te ha cambiado el nombre. De ahora en adelante serás llamado: “El hombre que vive aterrorizado”
.

4 Pues esto dice el Señor
: “Enviaré terror sobre ti y todos tus amigos y verás cuando sean masacrados por las espadas del enemigo. Entregaré al pueblo de Judá en manos del rey de Babilonia. Él los llevará cautivos a Babilonia o los traspasará con la espada;

5 y dejaré que tus enemigos saqueen a Jerusalén. Todos los tesoros famosos de la ciudad —las joyas preciosas, el oro y la plata de tus reyes— serán llevados a Babilonia.