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O Lord, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me (20:7) For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the Lord was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily (20:8) Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But [his word] was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not [stay] (20:9) For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, [say they], and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, [saying], Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him (20:10) But the Lord [is] with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: [their] everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten (20:11) But, O Lord of hosts, that triest the righteous, [and] seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause (20:12) Sing unto the Lord, praise ye the Lord: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers (20:13) Cursed [be] the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed (20:14) Cursed [be] the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad (20:15) And let that man be as the cities which the Lord overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide; (20:16) Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb [to be] always great [with me] (20:17) Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
(20:18)
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