7You enticed me, O LORD, and I was enticed. You strengthened me, and you prevailed. I became a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocked me.8For whenever I speak, I cry out violence and destruction; I call out, because the word of the LORD has become for me a reproach and derision all day long.9I said, I will not remember him, nor will I speak any longer in his name. But his word became in my heart like a burning fire, shut up in my bones. I grew weary of holding it in, and I could not.10For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side. Report it, they say, and we will report it. All my allies are watching for my fall. Perhaps he will be enticed, and we will prevail against him and take our revenge on him.11But the LORD is with me like a ruthless warrior; therefore my pursuers will stumble and will not prevail. They will be greatly ashamed, because they have not acted wisely; their everlasting shame will never be forgotten.12O LORD of Hosts, you test the righteous and see the kidneys and the heart. Let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you I have committed my cause.13Sing to the LORD; praise the LORD, for he has delivered the life of the needy from the hand of evildoers.14Cursed be the day on which I was born; let not the day on which my mother bore me be blessed.15Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father, saying, A male child has been born to you, making him very glad.16Let that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without pity; let him hear a cry in the morning and an alarm at noon.17Because he did not kill me in the womb, so that my mother would have been my grave and her womb forever pregnant.18Why did I come forth from the womb to see toil and sorrow, so that my days are ended in shame?