Jeremiah 20:7–12
7 O Lord, You have deceived me and I was deceived;
You have aovercome me and prevailed.
I have become a blaughingstock all day long;
Everyone cmocks me.
8 For each time I speak, I cry aloud;
I aproclaim violence and destruction,
Because for me the bword of the Lord has 1resulted
In reproach and derision all day long.
9 But if I say, “I will not aremember Him
Or speak anymore in His name,”
Then in bmy heart it becomes like a burning fire
Shut up in my bones;
And I am weary of holding it in,
And cI cannot endure it.
10 For aI have heard the whispering of many,
“bTerror on every side!
cDenounce him; yes, let us denounce him!”
Watching for my fall, say:
“Perhaps he will be 2deceived, so that we may eprevail against him
And take our revenge on him.”
11 But the aLord is with me like a dread champion;
Therefore my bpersecutors will stumble and not prevail.
They will be utterly ashamed, because they have 1failed,
With an ceverlasting disgrace that will not be forgotten.
12 Yet, O Lord of hosts, You who atest the righteous,
Who see the 1mind and the heart;
Let me bsee Your vengeance on them;
For cto You I have set forth my cause.