Jeremiah:20:7-18
noyes@Jeremiah:20:7 @ Thou didst persuade me, O Jehovah, and I was persuaded; Thou wast stronger than I, and didst prevail. But I am in derision daily, Every one mocketh me.
noyes@Jeremiah:20:8 @ For whenever I speak, I cry out on account of violence, And complain of oppression; For the word of Jehovah bringeth upon me reproach, And daily derision.
noyes@Jeremiah:20:9 @ So I say, I will no more make mention of him, Nor speak any more in his name; But his word is in my heart like a burning fire, shut up in my bones, And I am weary with forbearing, And I cannot refrain.
noyes@Jeremiah:20:10 @ For I hear the slander of many, terror on every side; "Tell us something against him, and we will denounce him." All my familiar friends, they who leave not my side, "Perhaps he will be enticed, So that we may prevail against him, And take our revenge on him."
noyes@Jeremiah:20:11 @ But Jehovah is on my side, like a mighty champion, Therefore shall my persecutors stumble, and not prevail; They shall be covered with shame, because they act not wisely,With everlasting shame, that shall not be forgotten.
noyes@Jeremiah:20:12 @ O Jehovah of hosts, thou that provest the righteous, That seest the reins and the heart, Let me see thy vengeance on them, For to thee have I laid open my cause!
noyes@Jeremiah:20:13 @ Sing to Jehovah! Praise ye Jehovah! For he delivereth the oppressed From the hand of evildoers.
noyes@Jeremiah:20:14 @ Cursed be the day on which I was born; Let not the day on which my mother bore me be blessed!
noyes@Jeremiah:20:15 @ Cursed be the man who brought the tidings to my father, Saying, "A son is born to thee," making him very glad!
noyes@Jeremiah:20:16 @ Let that man be like the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and relented not; Let him hear an outcry in the morning, And an alarm at noontide;
noyes@Jeremiah:20:17 @ Because he slew me not before I saw the light, So that my mother might have been my grave, And her womb have been great with me forever!
noyes@Jeremiah:20:18 @ Wherefore came I forth from the womb, to see weariness and sorrow, And that my days might be consumed in shame?
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