¹⁸ ‘Why^(A) then have You brought me out of the womb?
Oh, that I had perished and no eye had seen me!

^14 (A)Cursed be the day in which I was born!
Let the day not be blessed in which my mother bore me!
¹⁵ Let the man be cursed
Who brought news to my father, saying,
“A male child has been born to you!”
Making him very glad.
¹⁶ And let that man be like the cities
Which the Lord ^(B)overthrew, and did not relent;
Let him ^(C)hear the cry in the morning
And the shouting at noon,
^17 (D)Because he did not kill me from the womb,
That my mother might have been my grave,
And her womb always enlarged with me.
^18 (E)Why did I come forth from the womb to ^(F)see ^[a]labor and sorrow,
That my days should be consumed with shame?