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Jeremiah’s Lament and Yahweh’s Response

10 Woe to me, O my mother, that you gave birth to me,
    a man of contention and quarreling to the whole land.[a]
I have not lent out and I have not borrowed.[b]
    All of them are cursing me.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 15:10 Literally “to all of the land”
  2. Jeremiah 15:10 Literally “not they have lent out for me”

Jeremiah’s Complaint

10 How terrible for me, my mother,
    that you gave birth to me,
a man of strife and contention for the whole land!
    I’ve neither lent nor borrowed,
        yet everyone curses me.

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