Jeremiah 20:14-18

Contemporary English Version

^14 (A) Put a curse on the day I was born!
    Don't bless that day.
¹⁵ Put a curse on the man
who told my father, “Good news!
    You have a son.”
¹⁶ May that man be like the towns
    you destroyed without pity.
Let him hear shouts of alarm
in the morning
    and battle cries at noon.
¹⁷ He deserves to die
for not killing me
    before I was born.
Then my mother's body
    would have been my grave.
¹⁸ Why did I have to be born?
Was it just to suffer
    and die in shame?