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.

¹³ For you created my inmost being;^(A)
    you knit me together^(B) in my mother’s womb.^(C)
14 I praise you^(D) because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,^(E)
    I know that full well.
¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you
    when I was made^(F) in the secret place,
    when I was woven together^(G) in the depths of the earth.^(H)
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained^(I) for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.

⁶ From birth^(A) I have relied on you;
    you brought me forth from my mother’s womb.^(B)
    I will ever praise^(C) you.

⁸ May they be like a slug that melts away as it moves along,^(A)
    like a stillborn child^(B) that never sees the sun.

⁹ Yet you brought me out of the womb;^(A)
    you made me trust^(B) in you, even at my mother’s breast.
¹⁰ From birth^(C) I was cast on you;
    from my mother’s womb you have been my God.