7 Yahweh, you’ve deceived me, and I was deceived.

≈ You’ve overcome me and prevailed.

I’m laughed at all day long—

≈ everyone mocks me.

8 Yes, whenever I speak, I call out loudly.

I proclaim violence and destruction

because Yahweh’s message has become a reproach and derision for me, all day long.

9 If I say that I won’t mention him

and won’t speak in his name anymore,

then his message becomes a fire burning in my heart—

shut up in my bones.

Then I get worn out holding it in,

and I can’t continue to do it.

10 Yes, I’ve heard many people whispering

that terror is all around.

They want to publicly denounce me.

All my trusted friends watch for my fall:

“Perhaps he can be deceived

so that we may prevail against him

and take out our vengeance on him.”

11 However Yahweh is like a fearsome warrior with me,

therefore my persecutors will stumble and won’t prevail.

Because they won’t succeed, they’ll be totally put to shame—

an everlasting disgrace that’ll never be forgotten.

12 Commander-in-chief Yahweh, who examines the righteous people,

who sees the thoughts and motives,

let me see your vengeance upon them,

because I’ve made my case known to you.

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