Jeremiah 20:15-17

Contemporary English Version

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.