Jeremias 20:3

3 Na manhã seguinte, quando Pasur mandou soltá-lo do tronco, Jeremias lhe disse: “O SENHOR já não o chama Pasur, e sim Magor-Missabibe.^[a]

Jeremias 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.

Jeremias 20:3 In-Context

1 Quando o sacerdote Pasur, filho de Imer, o mais alto oficial do templo do SENHOR, ouviu Jeremias profetizando essas coisas,

2 mandou espancar o profeta e prendê-lo no tronco que havia junto à porta Superior de Benjamim, no templo do SENHOR.

3 Na manhã seguinte, quando Pasur mandou soltá-lo do tronco, Jeremias lhe disse: “O SENHOR já não o chama Pasur, e sim Magor-Missabibe.

4 Pois assim diz o SENHOR: ‘Farei de você um terror para você mesmo e para todos os seus amigos: você verá com os próprios olhos quando eles forem mortos à espada dos seus inimigos. Entregarei todo o povo de Judá nas mãos do rei da Babilônia, que os levará para a Babilônia e os matará à espada.

5 Eu entregarei nas mãos dos seus inimigos toda a riqueza desta cidade: toda a sua produção, todos os seus bens de valor e todos os tesouros dos reis de Judá. Levarão tudo como despojo para a Babilônia.

Footnotes

• [a] "Magor-Missabibe " significa "terror por todos os lados."