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7 You have persuaded me O YHWH, and I was persuaded; You are stronger than I, and You have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all the day, and everyone is mocking at me. 8 For whenever I speak, I cry out, I shout, ‘Violence and destruction!’ For the word of YHWH has become to me as a reproach and as a derision all the day. 9 And I said, “I will not mention Him and I will not speak anymore in His name. And it is in my heart burning like a fire, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of containing it, and I cannot prevail. 10 For I heard the whispering of many, terror from every side: “Report, and let us report him! Every man close to me was watching for my stumbling, “Perhaps he can be persuaded, so that we may prevail against him, and we will take our vengeance on him! 11 And YHWH is with me as a mighty awesome one! For thus my pursuers will stumble, and will not prevail. They will be greatly ashamed; indeed they will not succeed—everlasting disgrace will not be forgotten. 12 And YHWH of Hosts, the One testing the righteous, the One seeing the kidneys and mind, let me see Your vengeance on them! For to you I have uncovered my dispute. 13 Sing to YHWH! Praise YHWH! For He has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers. 14 Cursed be the day in which I was born, the day that my mother bore me—do not let it be blessed! 15 Cursed be the man who brought news to my father, saying, “A male child has been born to you, bringing him great joy. 16 And let that man be like the cities that YHWH overthrew, and did not relent; and let him hear an outcry in the morning, and a battle cry at noon! 17 Because he did not kill me from the womb, that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb pregnant forever. 18 Why is this—that from the womb I came forth to see trouble and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame? Jeremiah 20:7-18, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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