8. When I speak, the words burst out.“Violence and destruction!” I shout.So these messages from the lordhave made me a household joke.
9. But if I say I’ll never mention the lordor speak in his name,his word burns in my heart like a fire.It’s like a fire in my bones!I am worn out trying to hold it in!I can’t do it!
10. I have heard the many rumors about me.They call me “The Man Who Lives in Terror.”They threaten, “If you say anything, we will report it.”Even my old friends are watching me,waiting for a fatal slip.“He will trap himself,” they say,“and then we will get our revenge on him.”
11. But the lord stands beside me like a great warrior.Before him my persecutors will stumble.They cannot defeat me.They will fail and be thoroughly humiliated.Their dishonor will never be forgotten.