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overcome me and prevailed.<br>         I have become a laughingstock all day long;<br>         Everyone mocks me. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/20-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>For each time I speak, I cry aloud;<br>         I proclaim violence and destruction,<br>         Because for me the word of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> has resulted<br>         In reproach and derision all day long. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/20-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>But if I say, I will not remember Him<br>         Or speak anymore in His name,<br>         Then in my heart it becomes like a burning fire<br>         Shut up in my bones;<br>         And I am weary of holding <i>it</i> in,<br>         And I cannot endure <i>it.</i> <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/20-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>For I have heard the whispering of many,<br>         Terror on every side!<br>         Denounce <i>him;</i> yes, let us denounce him!<br>         All my trusted friends,<br>         Watching for my fall, say:<br>         Perhaps he will be deceived, so that we may prevail against him<br>         And take our revenge on him. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/20-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>But the L<font size="1">ORD</font> is with me like a dread champion;<br>         Therefore my persecutors will stumble and not prevail.<br>         They will be utterly ashamed, because they have failed,<br>         With an everlasting disgrace that will not be forgotten. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/20-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Yet, O L<font size="1">ORD</font> of hosts, You who test the righteous,<br>         Who see the mind and the heart;<br>         Let me see Your vengeance on them;<br>         For to You I have set forth my cause. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/20-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>Sing to the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, praise the L<font size="1">ORD</font>!<br>         For He has delivered the soul of the needy one<br>         From the hand of evildoers. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/20-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>Cursed be the day when I was born;<br>         Let the day not be blessed when my mother bore me! <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/20-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>Cursed be the man who brought the news<br>         To my father, saying,<br>         A baby boy has been born to you!<br>         <i>And</i> made him very happy. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/20-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>But let that man be like the cities<br>         Which the L<font size="1">ORD</font> overthrew without relenting,<br>         And let him hear an outcry in the morning<br>         And a shout of alarm at noon; <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/20-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>Because he did not kill me before birth,<br>         So that my mother would have been my grave,<br>         And her womb ever pregnant. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/20-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>Why did I ever come forth from the womb<br>         To look on trouble and sorrow,<br>         So that my days have been spent in shame? <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/jeremiah/20.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />O Jehovah, thou hast persuaded me, and I was persuaded; thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocketh me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/jeremiah/20.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Thou hast deceived me, O Lord, and I am deceived: thou hast been stronger than I, and thou hast prevailed. I am become a laughing-stock all the day, all scoff at me. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/jeremiah/20.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />Jehovah, thou hast enticed me, and I was enticed; thou hast laid hold of me, and hast prevailed; I am become a derision the whole day: every one mocketh me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/jeremiah/20.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am become a laughingstock all the day, every one mocketh me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/jeremiah/20.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/jeremiah/20.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded; you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocks me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/jeremiah/20.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Thou hast persuaded me, O Jehovah, and I am persuaded; Thou hast hardened me, and dost prevail, I have been for a laughter all the day, Every one is mocking at me,<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kuyper/the_work_of_the_holy_spirit/xiv_the_revelation_to_which.htm">The Revelation to which the Scripture of the Old Testament Owes Its Existence. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"O Lord, . . . Thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed."--Jer. xx. 7. The understanding of the Holy Spirit's work in Scripture requires us to distinguish the preparation, and the formation that was the outcome of the preparation. We will discuss these two separately. The Holy Spirit prepared for Scripture by the operations which from Paradise to Patmos supernaturally apprehended the sinful life of this world, and thus raised up believing men who formed the developing Church. This will seem very <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kuyper/the_work_of_the_holy_spirit/xiv_the_revelation_to_which.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Abraham Kuyper—</span><span class="citation2">The Work of the Holy Spirit</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kuyper/the_work_of_the_holy_spirit/xv_the_revelation_of_the.htm">The Revelation of the Old Testament in Writing. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Then I said, I will not speak any more in His Name. But His word was in my heart as a burning fire, shut up in my bones: and I was weary with forbearing, but I could not."--Jer. xx. 9. Altho the miracles performed for and in the midst of Israel created a glorious life-center in the midst of the heathen world, yet they did not constitute a Holy Scripture; for this can not be created except God speak to man, even to His people Israel. "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in times <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kuyper/the_work_of_the_holy_spirit/xv_the_revelation_of_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Abraham Kuyper—</span><span class="citation2">The Work of the Holy Spirit</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the_works_of_john_bunyan_volumes_1-3/one_thing_is_needful.htm">One Thing is Needful;</a><br></span><span class="snippet">or, SERIOUS MEDITATIONS UPON THE FOUR LAST THINGS: DEATH, JUDGMENT, HEAVEN, AND HELL UNTO WHICH IS ADDED EBAL AND GERIZZIM, OR THE BLESSING AND THE CURSE, by John Bunyan. London: Printed for Nath. Ponder, at the Peacock in the Poultry, 1688.[1] ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR. According to Charles Doe, in that curious sheet called The Struggler for the Preservation of Mr. John Bunyan's Labours, these poems were published about the year 1664, while the author was suffering imprisonment for conscience <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the_works_of_john_bunyan_volumes_1-3/one_thing_is_needful.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Bunyan—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcgarvey/the_four-fold_gospel/xlv_the_baptists_inquiry_and.htm">The Baptist's Inquiry and Jesus' Discourse Suggested Thereby. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">(Galilee.) ^A Matt. XI. 2-30; ^C Luke VII. 18-35. ^c 18 And the disciples of John told him of all these things. ^a 2 Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent by his disciples ^c 19 And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them unto the Lord [John had been cast into prison about December, a.d. 27, and it was now after the Passover, possibly in May or June, a.d. 28. Herod Antipas had cast John into prison because John had reproved him for taking his brother's wife. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcgarvey/the_four-fold_gospel/xlv_the_baptists_inquiry_and.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">J. W. McGarvey—</span><span class="citation2">The Four-Fold Gospel</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_35_approaching_doom.htm">Approaching Doom</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The first years of Jehoiakim's reign were filled with warnings of approaching doom. The word of the Lord spoken by the prophets was about to be fulfilled. The Assyrian power to the northward, long supreme, was no longer to rule the nations. Egypt on the south, in whose power the king of Judah was vainly placing his trust, was soon to receive a decided check. All unexpectedly a new world power, the Babylonian Empire, was rising to the eastward and swiftly overshadowing all other nations. Within a <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_35_approaching_doom.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Story of Prophets and Kings</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/the_beatitudes_an_exposition_of_matthew_51-12/9_the_hindrances_to_mourning.htm">The Hindrances to Mourning</a><br></span><span class="snippet">What shall we do to get our heart into this mourning frame? Do two things. Take heed of those things which will stop these channels of mourning; put yourselves upon the use of all means that will help forward holy mourning. Take heed of those things which will stop the current of tears. There are nine hindrances of mourning. 1 The love of sin. The love of sin is like a stone in the pipe which hinders the current of water. The love of sin makes sin taste sweet and this sweetness in sin bewitches the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/the_beatitudes_an_exposition_of_matthew_51-12/9_the_hindrances_to_mourning.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Thomas Watson—</span><span class="citation2">The Beatitudes: An Exposition of Matthew 5:1-12</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newman/parochial_and_plain_sermons_vol_viii/sermon_ix_jeremiah_a_lesson.htm">Jeremiah, a Lesson for the Disappointed. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord."--Jeremiah i. 8. The Prophets were ever ungratefully treated by the Israelites, they were resisted, their warnings neglected, their good services forgotten. But there was this difference between the earlier and the later Prophets; the earlier lived and died in honour among their people,--in outward honour; though hated and thwarted by the wicked, they were exalted to high places, and ruled in the congregation. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newman/parochial_and_plain_sermons_vol_viii/sermon_ix_jeremiah_a_lesson.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Henry Newman—</span><span class="citation2">Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bayly/the_practice_of_piety/meditations_for_the_morning.htm">Meditations for the Morning. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">1. Almighty God can, in the resurrection, as easily raise up thy body out of the grave, from the sleep of death, as he hath this morning wakened thee in thy bed, out of the sleep of nature. At the dawning of which resurrection day, Christ shall come to be glorified in his saints; and every one of the bodies of the thousands of his saints, being fashioned like unto his glorious body, shall shine as bright as the sun (2 Thess. i. 10; Jude, ver. 14; Phil. iii. 21; Luke ix. 31;) all the angels shining <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bayly/the_practice_of_piety/meditations_for_the_morning.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Lewis Bayly—</span><span class="citation2">The Practice of Piety</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/the_ten_commandments/2_9_the_ninth_commandment.htm">The Ninth Commandment</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.' Exod 20: 16. THE tongue which at first was made to be an organ of God's praise, is now become an instrument of unrighteousness. This commandment binds the tongue to its good behaviour. God has set two natural fences to keep in the tongue, the teeth and lips; and this commandment is a third fence set about it, that it should not break forth into evil. It has a prohibitory and a mandatory part: the first is set down in plain words, the other <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/the_ten_commandments/2_9_the_ninth_commandment.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Thomas Watson—</span><span class="citation2">The Ten Commandments</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/jeremiah.htm">Jeremiah</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The interest of the book of Jeremiah is unique. On the one hand, it is our most reliable and elaborate source for the long period of history which it covers; on the other, it presents us with prophecy in its most intensely human phase, manifesting itself through a strangely attractive personality that was subject to like doubts and passions with ourselves. At his call, in 626 B.C., he was young and inexperienced, i. 6, so that he cannot have been born earlier than 650. The political and religious <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/jeremiah.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Edgar McFadyen—</span><span class="citation2">Introduction to the Old Testament</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/jeremiah/20-7.htm">Jeremiah 20:7 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/jeremiah/20-7.htm">Jeremiah 20:7 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/jeremiah/20-7.htm">Jeremiah 20:7 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/jeremiah/20-7.htm">Jeremiah 20:7 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/jeremiah/20-7.htm">Jeremiah 20:7 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/jeremiah/20-7.htm">Jeremiah 20:7 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/jeremiah/20-7.htm">Jeremiah 20:7 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../jeremiah/20-6.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 20:6"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 20:6" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../jeremiah/20-8.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 20:8"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 20:8" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/jeremiah/20-7.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>