Jeremiah 20:1-2

Contemporary English Version

Footnotes

1. 20.2 hit me: Or “beat me up” or “had me beaten up.”
2. 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.”
3. 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.