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Jeremiah 20:9

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If I say, I will not make mention of him,
or speak any more in his name,
then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones.
I am weary with holding it in.
I can’t.

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Jeremiah 20:9 in other translations

And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot contain.

Jeremiah 20:9 · American Standard Version

Jeremiah 20:9 in context

  1. 7Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded.
    You are stronger than I, and have prevailed.
    I have become a laughingstock all day.
    Everyone mocks me.
  2. 8For as often as I speak, I cry out;
    I cry, “Violence and destruction!”
    because Yahweh’s word has been made a reproach to me,
    and a derision, all day.
  3. 9If I say, I will not make mention of him,
    or speak any more in his name,
    then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones.
    I am weary with holding it in.
    I can’t.
  4. 10For I have heard the defaming of many,
    “Terror on every side!
    Denounce, and we will denounce him!”
    say all my familiar friends,
    those who watch for my fall.
    “Perhaps he will be persuaded,
    and we will prevail against him,
    and we will take our revenge on him.”
  5. 11But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one.
    Therefore my persecutors will stumble,
    and they won’t prevail.
    They will be utterly disappointed,
    because they have not dealt wisely,
    even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.