8 For whenever I speak, I cry out,

I proclaim, “Violence and destruction!”v

so the word of the Lord has become my

constant disgrace and derision.

9 I say, “I won’t mention him

or speak any longer in his name.”w

But his message becomes a fire burning in my heart,x

shut up in my bones.

I become tired of holding it in,y

and I cannot prevail.