Jeremiah 20:14-18

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹⁴ May the day I was born be cursed.
Do not let the day my mother gave birth to me be blessed.
¹⁵ May the man be cursed who brought news to my father,
“A son is born to you,”
the man who brought him great joy.
¹⁶ Let that man be like the cities the Lord overthrew without pity.
Let him hear a cry in the morning,
an alarm for war at noon,
¹⁷ because he did not put me to death in the womb,
so that my mother would have been my grave,
and her womb would have been pregnant forever.
¹⁸ Why did I emerge from that womb
    to see trouble and sorrow,
    to finish my days in shame?