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  1. This is how Magor-missabib looks<\/em>. Jeremiah calls Pashhur \u201cMagor-missabib\u201d (v. 3 – literally, \u201cfear, or terror, all around\u201d) – so that he fears punishment for all the fear he has been fomenting. What fears exactly are Pashhur and his cronies inciting? In v. 10, Jeremiah relates the plans he has heard to get rid of him: \u201c\u2018I heard the whispers of the crowd\u2014 Terror all around: Inform! Let us inform against him! All my [supposed] friends Are waiting for me to stumble: Perhaps he can be entrapped, And we can prevail against him And take our vengeance on him.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Returning to the prophetic dedication<\/em>. To curse the day of one\u2019s birth is a way of saying, \u201cI\u2019m sick and tired of living.\u201d That\u2019s what Job will say, too, in 331 chapters (Job 3), as a result of the terrible tragedies that befall him.\u00a0 But when Jeremiah curses the day of his birth and complains, \u201cWhy did I ever issue from the womb?\u201d (v. 18), in those words, the dedication of his prophecy, that we heard 19 chapters ago, reverberates: \u201cBefore I created you in the womb, I selected you; Before you were born, I consecrated you\u201d (1:5).<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. How is the messenger guilty<\/em>? Jeremiah doesn\u2019t just curse the messenger who announced his birth (vv. 14-18). He also wishes him the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah. Why? How is the messenger at fault? Perhaps by this curse, Jeremiah wants to communicate another message: That messenger is of course not guilty – he just brought the news of Jeremiah\u2019s impending birth. In the same way, Jeremiah is just a messenger, bringing the word of God. 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