A reading from
the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah20:7-9
You duped me, O Lord, and I let myself be duped;/ you were too strong for me, and you triumphed./ All the day I am an object of laughter;/ everyone mocks me.
Whenever I speak, I must cry out,/ violence and outrage is my message;/ the word of the Lord has brought me/ derision and reproach all the day.
I say to myself, I will not mention him,/ I will speak in his name no more./ But then it becomes like fire burning in my heart,/ imprisoned in my bones;/ I grow weary holding it in,/ I cannot endure it.
The word of the Lord.
