Jeremiah 20:17-18

Easy-to-Read Version

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.
¹⁸ Why did I have to come out of her body?
    All I have seen is trouble and sorrow,
    and my life will end in shame.