jps Jeremiah:20:7-18
jps@Jeremiah:20:7 @ O LORD, Thou hast enticed me, and I was enticed, Thou hast overcome me, and hast prevailed; I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocketh me.
jps@Jeremiah:20:8 @ For as often as I speak, I cry out, I cry: 'Violence and spoil'; because the word of the LORD is made a reproach unto me, and a derision, all the day.
jps@Jeremiah:20:9 @ And if I say: 'I will not make mention of Him, nor speak any more in His name', then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I weary myself to hold it in, but cannot.
jps@Jeremiah:20:10 @ For I have heard the whispering of many, terror on every side: 'Denounce, and we will denounce him'; even of all my familiar friends, them that watch for my halting: 'Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.'
jps@Jeremiah:20:11 @ But the LORD is with me as a mighty warrior; therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be greatly ashamed, because they have not prospered, even with an everlasting confusion which shall never be forgotten.
jps@Jeremiah:20:12 @ But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, that seest the reins and the heart, let me see Thy vengeance on them; for unto Thee have I revealed my cause.
jps@Jeremiah:20:13 @ Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD; for He hath delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evil-doers.
jps@Jeremiah:20:14 @ Cursed be the day wherein I was born; the day wherein my mother bore me, let it not be blessed.
jps@Jeremiah:20:15 @ Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying: 'A man-child is born unto thee'; making him very glad.
jps@Jeremiah:20:16 @ And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not; and let him hear a cry in the morning, and an alarm at noontide;
jps@Jeremiah:20:17 @ Because He slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
jps@Jeremiah:20:18 @ Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame?
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