Jeremiah 20:15-17

Easy-to-Read Version

¹⁵ Curse the man who told my father the news that I was born.
    “It’s a boy!” he said.
    “You have a son.”
He made my father very happy
    when he told him the news.
¹⁶ Let that man be like the cities the Lord destroyed.^[a]
    He had no pity on them.
Let him hear shouts of war in the morning;
    let him hear battle cries at noontime,
¹⁷ because he did not kill me
    while I was in my mother’s womb.
If he had killed me then,
    my mother would have been my grave,
    and I would not have been born.