Jeremiah 20:7-9

EasyEnglish Bible

⁷ Lord, you forced me to become a prophet,
    and I let you do that.
You used your power to make me agree,
    and you won.
Now everybody laughs at me and they insult me.
⁸ When I speak your message, I have to say,
    ‘Terrible trouble is coming!’
When I shout that message from the Lord,
    people laugh at me.
    They insult me.
⁹ Sometimes I think,
    ‘I will say nothing about the Lord or his message.’
But then his message burns like a fire inside me.
    It gives me pain in my mind and my body.
I cannot keep his message to myself.
    I have to speak it.