Jeremiah 20:16-18

New Century Version

¹⁶ Let that man be like the towns
    the Lord destroyed without pity.
Let him hear loud crying in the morning
    and battle cries at noon,
¹⁷ because he did not kill me before I was born.
    Then my mother would have been my grave;
    she would have stayed pregnant forever.
¹⁸ Why did I have to come out of my mother’s body?
    All I have known is trouble and sorrow,
    and my life will end in shame.