Jeremiah 20:14-18

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁴ Cursed be the day
    on which I was born!
The day when my mother bore me,
    let it not be blessed!
¹⁵ Cursed be the man
    who brought the news to my father, saying,
“A child is born to you, a son,”
    making him very glad.
¹⁶ Let that man be like the cities
    that the Lord overthrew without pity;
let him hear a cry in the morning
    and an alarm at noon,
¹⁷ because he did not kill me in the womb;
    so my mother would have been my grave,
    and her womb forever great.
¹⁸ Why did I come forth from the womb
    to see toil and sorrow,
    and spend my days in shame?