7  O Lord, ^tyou have deceived me,

and I was deceived;

^uyou are stronger than I,

and you have prevailed.

^vI have become a laughingstock all the day;

everyone mocks me.

8  For whenever I speak, I cry out,

I shout, ^w“Violence and destruction!”

For ^xthe word of the Lord has become for me

^ya reproach and ^yderision all day long.

9  If I say, “I will not mention him,

or speak any more in his name,”

^zthere is in my heart as it were a burning fire

shut up in my bones,

and ^aI am weary with holding it in,

and I cannot.