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 fireshut 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 himand 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 dishonorwill never be forgotten.
12. O Lord of hosts, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind,let me see your vengeance upon them,for to you have I committed my cause.
13. Sing to the Lord;praise the Lord!For he has delivered the life of the needyfrom the hand of evildoers.
14. Cursed be the dayon which I was born!The day when my mother bore me,let it not be blessed!