rotherham - Jeremiah:20:7-18

rotherham@Jeremiah:20:7 @ Thou didst persuade me, O Yahweh and I was persuaded, Thou didst lay firm hold on me and didst prevail, I am become a mockery, all the day, Every one, is laughing at me.

rotherham@Jeremiah:20:8 @ For, as often as I speak, I make outcry, Violence and wasting, I proclaim, Yea the word of Yahweh hath become to me a reproach and derision lull the day

rotherham@Jeremiah:20:9 @ Therefore I say I will not mention him Neither will I speak any more in his name, But then it becometh in my heart as a fire that burneth, Shut up in my bones, And I am weary of restraint and cannot refrain.

rotherham@Jeremiah:20:10 @ Because I have heard the whispering of many"A terror round about!" Tell ye, that we may tell of him, All the men I am wont to salute do watch for my halting, Peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail over him, and take our vengeance upon him.

rotherham@Jeremiah:20:11 @ But, Yahweh, is with me, as a mighty one striking terror, For this cause, shall my persecutors stumble and not prevail, They have turned very pale, For they have not prospered, Confusion age-abiding, it shall not be forgotten!

rotherham@Jeremiah:20:12 @ But O Yahweh of hosts Testing the righteous Beholding the affections and the heart, Let me see thine avenging upon them, For unto thee, have I laid bare my cause.

rotherham@Jeremiah:20:13 @ Sing ye to Yahweh! Praise ye Yahweh! For he hath delivered the soul of the needy, out of the hand of evildoers.

rotherham@Jeremiah:20:14 @ Accursed, be the day on which I was born, The day when my mother bare me, let it not be blessed!

rotherham@Jeremiah:20:15 @ Accursed, be the man who carried tidings to my father saying, There is born to thee a man-child!

rotherham@Jeremiah:20:16 @ Making him very glad: Yea let that man beas the cities which Yahweh overthrew and repented not, And let him hear An outcry in the morning, and A war-shout at broad noon!

rotherham@Jeremiah:20:17 @ Because I was not slain from the womb, Nor did my mother become my grave, Nor was her womb great for ever!

rotherham@Jeremiah:20:18 @ Wherefore was it That from the womb, I came forth, to see labour and pain; and That in shame should my days be consumed!