⁷ You have persuaded me, O Yahweh, and I was persuaded.
    You have overpowered me, and you have prevailed.
I have become a laughingstock all day long.
    Everyone^[e] is mocking me.
⁸ For as often as^[f] I speak,
    I must cry out violence and destruction.
I must shout, for the word of Yahweh has become for me
    a disgrace and derision all day long.
⁹ But if I say, “I will not mention him
    and I will no longer speak in his name,”
then it becomes in my heart like a fire burning,
    locked up in my bones,
and I struggle to contain it,^[g]
    and I am not able.
¹⁰ For I hear the rumor of many,
    “Terror is from all around, denounce him,^[h]
    yes, let us denounce him!”
All my close friends^[i] are watchers of my stumbling,
    saying, “perhaps he can be persuaded,
and we can prevail over him,
    and we can take our revenge on him.”
¹¹ But Yahweh is with me like a powerful warrior.
    Therefore^[j] my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail.
They will be very ashamed, for they will not achieve success.
    Their everlasting insult^[k] will not be forgotten.
¹² Yet, O Yahweh of hosts, who tests the righteous,
    who sees the heart^[l] and the mind,^[m]
let me see your retribution upon them,
    for to you I have revealed my legal case.
¹³ Sing to Yahweh, praise Yahweh,
    for he has delivered the life of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
¹⁴ Cursed be the day on which I was born,
    let not the day on which my mother gave birth to me be blessed.
¹⁵ Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father,
    saying,^[n] “A child is born to you, a son!”
    and he made him very glad.
¹⁶ And let that man be like the cities
    that Yahweh demolished without regret,
and let him hear a cry for help in the morning,
    and an alarm at the time of noon.
¹⁷ Because he did not kill me in the womb,
    so that my mother would have been for me my grave,
    and her womb would be pregnant forever.
¹⁸ Why^[o] did I come out from the womb,
    to see toil, and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?^[p]