¹¹ “Why did I not perish at birth,
    and die as I came from the womb?^(A)

³ “Listen^(A) to me, you descendants of Jacob,
    all the remnant^(B) of the people of Israel,
you whom I have upheld since your birth,^(C)
    and have carried^(D) since you were born.^(E)

¹⁸ “Why then did you bring me out of the womb?^(A)
    I wish I had died before any eye saw me.^(B)
19 If only I had never come into being,
    or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!^(C)

¹⁴ Give them, Lord—
    what will you give them?
Give them wombs that miscarry
    and breasts that are dry.^(A)

¹⁰ Alas, my mother, that you gave me birth,^(A)
    a man with whom the whole land strives and contends!^(B)
I have neither lent^(C) nor borrowed,
    yet everyone curses^(D) me.