Jeremiah 20:16-18

Good News Translation

¹⁶ May he be like those cities
    that the Lord destroyed without mercy.
May he hear cries of pain in the morning
    and the battle alarm at noon,
¹⁷     for not killing me before I was born.
Then my mother's womb would have been my grave.
¹⁸ Why was I born?
    Was it only to have trouble and sorrow,
    to end my life in disgrace?