# General Information:

Jeremiah speaks to Yahweh. The ULB sets poetry (20:7-18) farther to the right to show that it is poetry.

# Yahweh, you deceived me, and I was deceived

"Yahweh, you persuaded me, and I was indeed deceived."

# I have become a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me

These two phrases emphasize the way others mock him.

# laughingstock

This is a person whom others laugh at and make fun of.