Jeremiah 20:7 - 20:10

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

You were stronger than I, and You prevailed.

I have become a laughingstock all day long;

Everyone mocks me.

For each time I speak, I cry aloud;

I call out violence and devastation

Because for me the word of Yahweh has resulted

In reproach and derision all day long.

But if I say, “I will not remember Him

Or speak anymore in His name,”

Then in my heart it becomes like a burning fire

Shut up in my bones;

And I am weary of holding it in,

And I cannot prevail.

For I have heard the bad report of many,

“Terror on every side!

Denounce him; yes, let us denounce him!”

All my trusted friends,

Keeping watch for my fall, say:

“Perhaps he will be deceived, so that we may prevail against him

And take our revenge on him.”