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Hearing this word, Paskhor (he was the high priest), not only struck the Prophet, but also subjected him to imprisonment. For it is said: Jer.20:2. And Passor struck Jeremiah the Prophet, and threw him into the treasure. He talks about some underground place; and there were many such rooms in the church built by Solomon. But the next day, after harassing Jeremiah, Pashor again heard the following from him. Jer.20:3. The Lord did not call your name Pashor, but the Lord from everywhere. The prophet says that not only he, but also his friends will become captives, and after captivity they will be killed. And God is threatening the entire people that they will betray them to Nebuchadnezzar. Therefore, the Prophet, having said this in detail, expresses indignation at the frequent uprisings against him, and boldly relying on the purity of conscience, boldly turns to the Lord and says: Jer.20:7. You have deceived me, O Lord, and I am deceived; you are stronger than me, and you have prevailed, that is, I avoided prophetic ministry, but You promised me that I would overcome those at war, promised to make me like a wall of copper and a pillar of iron; and now I have become ridiculed. For this is what he says: “I was laughing all day if you cursed at me.” Jer.20:8. Even though they will laugh at my bitter word, I will bring rejection and poverty, as if the word of the Lord were to be reproached to me, and to be laughed at all day long. What is painful for the Prophet is not the suffering and beatings he himself endures, but the impudent mockery of the words of God. (Jer.20:9). “And I said: I will not remember the name of the Lord; I will speak below to someone in His name”; those. I will not prophesy, and I will not communicate the oracles of God to the disobedient. “And there was in my heart like a burning, scorching fire” and he was embarrassed “in my bones, and I was weakened everywhere, and I could not bear it.” The divine Paul also experienced this himself when he was silent in Athens. For, it is said, the spirit in Paul was troubled, “seeing the idol full of the city” (Acts 17:16). The Prophet also experiences the same thing, because the prophetic grace constrained him when he did not want to speak. Then he tells how they not only tortured and beat him, but also plotted another execution, trying to seduce him and make him an apostate from God. For, as the Prophet says, they reasoned among themselves. Jeremiah 20:10. Let us attack Nan, all the men are his friends: watch his thoughts, if he is deceived, we will overcome us, and we will take our vengeance on him. Who will worthily expose these plans of wickedness? And the Prophet does not rely on himself, but praises God’s help and says: Jer.20:11. The Lord is with me like a strong fighter. It also makes it possible to see the victory of God’s help. “For the sake of this, I have not been able to conquer; Then he again asks God to become a judge and punish them as they stand for their plans. But, grieving, extremely ill, and upset by his present life, first of all he sings songs to the God of all, and then curses the day on which his mother gave birth to him. For he says: Jer.20:13. Sing to the Lord, praise the Lord, for you have delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of the evil ones. Provides hymns to remove every occasion for blasphemy. (Jer.20:14). “Cursed is the day in which I was born: the day in which my mother gave birth to me.” (Jer.20:15). “Cursed is the man who told my father, a river: be born to you a manly child”: do not be joyful. It is the custom of extremely sad people to rush at those around them and squeeze them with their hands, and sometimes break their hands out of painful grief; and the Prophet experienced this. Out of excessive grief, the day fell, an insubstantial thing, and the one who announced the birth to the father, and this was not any specific person: probably no one announced the father. The Prophet also adds that it would be better for him to die (Jer. 20:17) “in the womb of his mother,” and come out of the womb dead, rather than fall into these all kinds of disasters.