⁷ O LORD,
thou hast deceived me,
and I was deceived:
thou art stronger than I,
and hast prevailed:
I am in derision daily [daily all of it],
every one mocketh me.
⁸ 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 [all of the day].
⁹ 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.
¹⁰ For I heard the defaming of many,
fear on every side.
Report,
say they,
and we will report it.
All my familiars [men of my peace]
watched for my halting,
saying,
Peradventure he will be enticed,
and we shall prevail against him,
and we shall take our revenge on him.
¹¹ 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.
¹² 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 [this] my cause.

¹³ Sing unto the LORD,
praise ye [this] the LORD:
for he hath delivered [this] the soul of the poor
from the hand of evildoers.

¹⁴ Cursed be the day wherein born:
let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
¹⁵ Cursed be the man who bought tidings to [this] my father,
saying,
A man child is born unto thee;
making him very glad [brightening him he brightened].
¹⁶ 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 [in time of noon];
¹⁷ 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.
¹⁸ Wherefore came I forth out of the womb
to see labour and sorrow,
that my days should be consumed with shame?