Jeremiah:20:7-18

---

Seeker Overlay ON

* Jehovah , thou hast enticed me , and I was enticed ; thou hast laid hold of me , and hast prevailed ; I am become a derision the whole day : every one mocketh me . * For as oft as I speak , I cry out ; I proclaim violence and spoil ; for the word of Jehovah is become unto me a reproach and a derision all the day . * And I said , I will not make mention of him , nor speak any more in his name : but it was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones ; and I became wearied with holding in , and I could not . * For I have heard the defaming of many , terror on every side : Report , and we will report it . All my familiars are watching for my stumbling : Peradventure he will be enticed , and we shall prevail against him ; and we shall take our revenge on him . * But Jehovah is with me as a mighty terrible one ; therefore my persecutors shall stumble and shall not prevail ; they shall be greatly ashamed , for they have not prospered : it shall be an everlasting confusion that shall not be forgotten . * And thou , Jehovah of hosts , who triest the righteous , who seest the reins and the heart , let me see thy vengeance on them ; for unto thee have I revealed my cause . * Sing ye unto Jehovah , praise Jehovah , for he hath delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers . * Cursed be the day wherein I was born ; let not the day wherein my mother bore me be blessed ! * Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father , saying , A man child is born unto thee ; making him very glad ! * And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew , and repented not ; and let him hear a cry in the morning , and a shouting at noonday , * because he slew me not from the womb . Or would that my mother had been my grave , and her womb always great [with me ]! * Wherefore came I forth from the womb to see labour and sorrow , that my days should be consumed in shame ?

---