mkjv - Jeremiah:20:7-18

mkjv@Jeremiah:20:7 @ O LORD, You have deceived me, and I was deceived. You are stronger than I, and You have prevailed. I am in derision all the day; everyone laughs at me.

mkjv@Jeremiah:20:8 @ For whenever I speak, I cry out, I cry violence and ruin; for the Word of the LORD has been a reproach and a cause of mocking to me all day.

mkjv@Jeremiah:20:9 @ Then I said, I will not mention Him, nor speak in His name any more. But [His Word] was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with holding in, and I could not stop.

mkjv@Jeremiah:20:10 @ For I heard the slanders of many, Terror is all around! Expose! Yea, let us expose him! Every man of my peace is watching for my fall, [saying], Perhaps he will be lured away, and we shall prevail over him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

mkjv@Jeremiah:20:11 @ But the LORD [is] with me like a mighty, awesome one. Therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not overcome me. They shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not be blessed. Their] everlasting shame shall never be forgotten.

mkjv@Jeremiah:20:12 @ But, O Jehovah of hosts, who tries the righteous [and] sees the reins and the heart, let me see Your vengeance on them. For I have committed my cause to You.

mkjv@Jeremiah:20:13 @ Sing to the LORD, praise the LORD; for He has delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.

mkjv@Jeremiah:20:14 @ Cursed [is] the day in which I was born; let not the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.

mkjv@Jeremiah:20:15 @ Cursed [is] the man who brought news to my father, saying, A man child is born to you; making him very glad.

mkjv@Jeremiah:20:16 @ And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not; and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;

mkjv@Jeremiah:20:17 @ because he did not kill me from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb [to be] always great [with me].

mkjv@Jeremiah:20:18 @ Why did I come forth from the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame?