For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.
I will make thee a terror to thyself and to all thy friends - who have believed thy false promises (Jeremiah 20:6). The sense must be in order to accord, with 'fear round about' (Jeremiah 20:3). I will bring terror on thee and on all thy friends, that terror arising from thyself-namely, thy false prophecies. Thou and thy prophecies will be seen, to the dismay both of thee and thy dupes, to have caused their ruin and thine. Maurer's translation is therefore not needed, 'I will give up thee and all thy friends to terror.'