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LORD, You persuaded me and I let myself be persuaded; You have ^(C1)overcome me and prevailed. I have become a ^(C2)laughingstock all day long; Everyone ^(C3)mocks me.

For each time I speak, I cry aloud; I ^(C1)proclaim violence and destruction, Because for me the ^(C2)word of the LORD has ^(F1)resulted In taunting and derision all day long.

But if I say, "I will not ^(C1)remember Him Nor speak anymore in His name," Then in ^(C2)my heart it becomes like a burning fire Shut up in my bones; And I am tired of holding it in, And ^(C3)I cannot endure it.

For ^(C1)I have heard the whispering of many, "^(C2)Terror on every side! ^(C3)Denounce him; let's denounce him!" ^(F1)All my ^(C4)trusted friends, Watching for my fall, say: "Perhaps he will be persuaded, so that we may ^(C5)prevail against him And take our revenge on him."

But the ^(C1)LORD is with me like a powerful champion; Therefore my ^(C2)persecutors will stumble and not prevail. They will be put to great shame because they have ^(F1)failed, An ^(C3)everlasting disgrace that will not be forgotten.

Yet, LORD of armies, who ^(C1)tests the righteous, Who sees the ^(F1)mind and the heart; Let me ^(C2)see Your vengeance on them, For ^(C3)to You I have disclosed my cause.

^(C1)Sing to the LORD, praise the LORD! For He has ^(C2)saved the soul of the needy one From the hand of evildoers.

Cursed be the ^(C1)day when I was born; May the day when my mother gave birth to me not be blessed!

Cursed be the man who brought the news To my father, saying, "A ^(F1)(C1)boy has been born to you!" And made him very happy.

But may that man be like the cities Which the LORD ^(C1)overthrew without ^(F1)relenting, And may he hear an ^(C2)outcry in the morning And ^(F2)an alarm for war at noon;

Because he did not ^(C1)kill me ^(F1)before birth, So that my mother would have been my grave, And her womb forever pregnant.

Why did I ever come out of the womb To ^(C1)look at trouble and sorrow, So that my ^(C2)days have been spent in ^(C3)shame?