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16 Let that man be like the cities
    that the Lord overthrew without pity;
let him hear a cry in the morning
    and an alarm at noon,
17 because he did not kill me in the womb;
    so my mother would have been my grave,
    and her womb for ever great.
18 Why did I come forth from the womb
    to see toil and sorrow,
    and spend my days in shame?

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