Jeremiah 20:14-18

Good News Translation

^14 (A)Curse the day I was born!
Forget the day my mother gave me birth!
¹⁵ Curse the one who made my father glad
    by bringing him the news,
    “It's a boy! You have a son!”
¹⁶ May he be like those cities
    that the Lord destroyed without mercy.
May he hear cries of pain in the morning
    and the battle alarm at noon,
¹⁷     for not killing me before I was born.
Then my mother's womb would have been my grave.
¹⁸ Why was I born?
    Was it only to have trouble and sorrow,
    to end my life in disgrace?