Jeremiah 20:7–11

7 O LORD, you have deceived me, 
      and I was deceived; 
      you are stronger than I, 
      and you have prevailed. 
      I have become a laughingstock all the day; 
      everyone mocks me. 
      8 For whenever I speak, I cry out, 
      I shout, “Violence and destruction!” 
      For the word of the LORD has become for me 
      a reproach and derision all day long. 
      9 If I say, “I will not mention him, 
      or speak any more in his name,” 
      there is in my heart as it were a burning fire 
      shut up in my bones, 
      and I am weary with holding it in, 
      and I cannot. 
      10 For I hear many whispering. 
      Terror is on every side! 
      “Denounce him! Let us denounce him!” 
      say all my close friends, 
      watching for my fall. 
      “Perhaps he will be deceived; 
      then we can overcome him 
      and take our revenge on him.” 
      11 But the LORD is with me as a dread warrior; 
      therefore my persecutors will stumble; 
      they will not overcome me. 
      They will be greatly shamed, 
      for they will not succeed. 
      Their eternal dishonor 
      will never be forgotten.