Jeremiah 18:19-21

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁹ Give heed to me, O Lord,
    and hearken to my plea.^[a]
20 Is evil a recompense for good?
    Yet they have dug a pit for my life.
Remember how I stood before thee
    to speak good for them,
    to turn away thy wrath from them.
²¹ Therefore deliver up their children to famine;
    give them over to the power of the sword,
let their wives become childless and widowed.
    May their men meet death by pestilence,
    their youths be slain by the sword in battle.