Jeremiah 20:15-17

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁵ May the man be cursed
who brought the news to my father, saying,
‘A male child is born to you,’
bringing him great joy.
¹⁶ Let that man be like the cities
the Lord demolished without compassion.^(A)
Let him hear an outcry in the morning^(B)
and a war cry at noontime
¹⁷ because he didn’t kill me in the womb^(C)
so that my mother might have been my grave,
her womb eternally pregnant.