Jeremiah 20:16-18

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

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?