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15 Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying,
    “A boy is born to you,” making him very glad.
16 Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew,
    and didn’t repent.
Let him hear a cry in the morning,
    and shouting at noontime;
17 because he didn’t kill me from the womb.
    So my mother would have been my grave,
    and her womb always great.

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15 Cursed be the man who brought my father the news,
    who made him very glad, saying,
    “A child is born to you—a son!”
16 May that man be like the towns(A)
    the Lord overthrew without pity.
May he hear wailing(B) in the morning,
    a battle cry at noon.
17 For he did not kill me in the womb,(C)
    with my mother as my grave,
    her womb enlarged forever.

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