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^[a] is mocking me.
⁸ For as often as^[b] 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,^[c]
    and I am not able.
¹⁰ For I hear the rumor of many,
    “Terror is from all around, denounce him,^[d]
    yes, let us denounce him!”
All my close friends^[e] 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.”