16 Let that man be like the cities
the Lord demolished without compassion.(A)
Let him hear an outcry in the morning(B)
and a war cry at noontime
17 because he didn’t kill me in the womb(C)
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,(D)
to end my life in shame?

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