For each time I speak, I cry out;
I cry out, “Violence and devastation,”
because to me the word of the LORD has resulted
in reproach and derision daily.
But if I say, “I will not make mention of Him
nor speak any more in His name,”
then His word was in my heart
as a burning fire shut up in my bones;
and I was weary of forbearing it,
and I could not endure it.