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14 Cursed is the day in which I was born.
    Don’t let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
15 Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying,
    “A boy is born to you,” making him very glad.
16 Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew,
    and didn’t repent.
Let him hear a cry in the morning,
    and shouting at noontime;
17 because he didn’t kill me from the womb.
    So my mother would have been my grave,
    and her womb always great.
18 Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow,
    that my days should be consumed with shame?

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Jeremiah’s Lament

14 May the day I was born
be cursed.(A)
May the day my mother bore me
never be blessed.
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.(B)
Let him hear an outcry in the morning(C)
and a war cry at noontime
17 because he didn’t kill me in the womb(D)
so that my mother might have been my grave,
her womb eternally pregnant.

18 Why did I come out of the womb
to see only struggle and sorrow,(E)
to end my life in shame?

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