For whenever I speak, I cry out,
    I shout, (A)“Violence and destruction!”
For (B)the word of the Lord has become for me
    (C)a reproach and (D)derision all day long.
If I say, “I will not mention him,
    or speak any more in his name,”
(E)there is in my heart as it were a burning fire
    shut up in my bones,
and (F)I am weary with holding it in,
    and I cannot.

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