Jeremiah 20:7-10

O Yahweh, You have enticed me, and I was enticed;

You were ^astronger than I, and You prevailed.

I have become a ^blaughingstock all day long;

Everyone ^cmocks me.

For each time I speak, I cry aloud;

I ^acall out violence and devastation

Because for me the ^bword of Yahweh has ¹resulted

In reproach and derision all day long.

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 prevail.

For ^aI have heard the bad report of many,

“^bTerror on every side!

^cDenounce him; yes, let us denounce him!”

¹All my ^dtrusted friends,

Keeping watch for my fall, say:

“Perhaps he will be ²deceived, so that we may ^eprevail against him

And take our revenge on him.”